Olya Bro từ Mestanovo, Leningradskaya oblast', Russia

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2018-06-25 11:31

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One star instead of zero, because I did finish the book, and that deserves something. The excerpt in the front was funny. The title was great. I thought I had found a nice new mystery series to share with my mystery-loving mother and grandmother. Not so. Putting aside issues with the prose and plot (kinda important for this genre), the heroine was horrible. Not an intentionally flawed type of horrible, just horrible. I thought it dredged up so many bad stereotypes of librarians . . . and single women . . . and women over forty . . . and well all women. Here's a brief list of traits that annoyed me about the protagonist: Incredibly judgmental, especially if you have an answering machine (she leaves messages for no one! how dare they expect her to answer after the beep!), use breath mints, or have briefly lived in California. If you fall under any of these categories you are deemed rude, unintelligent and/or morally suspect. Has food issues. Most of the novel, she is avoiding food, except for a pastry binge. This is not presented as a potential wrinkle to her character (or a reason why she's not thinking clearly and lacks energy - that's because she's now 42), but normal behavior. Aging is bad, because it puts you further out of the marriage market and women can only be fulfilled if they have a husband and children (this actually makes the happy ending a bit more sad). She doesn't seem to read books. She prides herself in being able to quote from ones she hasn't read (because apparently being a librarian is about the illusion of knowledge) and looks askance at people "misusing" books (okay, normally, I would support her "library books are not coasters" stance, but the patron was reading it - which is more than she does in the whole novel).

Người đọc Olya Bro từ Mestanovo, Leningradskaya oblast', Russia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.