by Tracy Chevalier
I'm on a roll - reading authors/genres I *know* I won't like. Tracy Chevalier is perhaps my most love-to-hate author. I haven't really liked anything she's written since Girl With a Pearl Earring (which I read when I was a dummy undergrad so we really can't trust that assessment). Chevalier is th...
It's not often you find a historical book that doesn't info dump you with famous people (like the entirety of the Tudors). So I'm pretty intrigued to find out what this book has to offer.
This was a fantastic read! This is the first book I've read by Tracy Chevalier, and I loved her writing style and voice.Each chapter was written from the perspective of a different character, which can be really hit or miss. But each chapter made me love that character more, and gave me more insight...
An interesting idea and a clever conceit, but I really didn't care much what happened to the characters and wanted to slap Nicholas!
Incredibly clunky and just flat-out dull. If you've read Girl With a Pearl Earring you can pretty much track where this story's going to go. It's very predictable and the sexual subplots were laughable in places. Sorry, Ms Chevalier, but this was just not worth my time, even for the really lovely sc...
I am impressed. I never thought this book would be as lovely as Girl with a Pearl Earring: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50899944! First let me just explain that this is a book of historical fiction. In the Museé National du Moyen-Age we can today see the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. They...
I wanted to give this book 1½ stars, but rounded down to 1. I disliked the main character, the tapestry painter Nicolas des Innocents, by page 10, but I assumed that the author would have him grow and change as a person by the end of the book -- presumably through the process of creating the remarka...
This was one I really wanted to enjoy, but I just could not. It turned out to be tiresome, and while there was an interesting section or two -- mostly about the symbolism of the famous Cluny tapestries, I was bored witless by this one. Too bad, as there could have been a really great novel here. I s...
I started and finished this one during today's afternoon "waiting for jury duty" session. It was as readable as "Girl with a Pearl Earring," but it is better described as cheesecake: not as elegant as 'Pearl Earring,' but very enjoyable.
I don't like Chevalier and I don't know why I keep reading her. Maybe that means I secretly do like her? Her books are well-written: engaging, simple, straight-forward. Her plots are always intriguing. Her history seems well-researched and while she doesn't steep the reader in historical detail, she...
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