Title: Sorry to disagree but...
Review: I liked Wide Sargasso Sea and thought this book had promise (based on the back cover synopsis). That will teach me to fall for the b.c. synopses, which I should have learned by now. I think the story is not at all compelling, but could have been if we'd learned just a bit more about the characters, their motivations, their backgrounds. I found the writing annoying: in reading passages of dialog I was often startled to see that a quotation was what a character was thinking, not saying. These "thought quotations" were mixed in w/ "spoken quotations," making for jumpy reading. A graceless approach to telling a slight but potentially graceful story. I DID like her descriptions of Paris and other French cities. And I was intrigued by her frequent mention of the color red. I might try other books by her, but it's unlikely.
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