The romance plot wasn't the main point of the novel for me, and nor did I find it obtrusive. (Perhaps perversely, one of these is more likely to be a 4-star than a 5-star book, as the latter can feel almost too profound or too rich.) But something clicked, and I soon, at timeswhen I wasn't reading Like Water for Chocolate, I couldn't wait to get back to it, in a way that I hadn't found with any book for a long time. I was wondering what was wrong with me that I found this twee and unpalatably artificial, yet I loved a collection of Russian fairy tales I've been dipping into over the last couple of weeks. I enjoyed this tremendously - which was unexpected.įor the first quarter of the book - which I read quickly - I found the tone and the magic realism quite twee, in a way that reminded me a lot of 100 Years of Solitude, or rather my perception of it nearly 25 years ago.
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