A review by solaris_zip
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

0.0

I really couldn’t get into the book. I felt an outsider, which is something that rarely happens when I’m reading. Theo’s storyline is sad, but throughout the book he has no personal development or whatever. He gets swan from a young age by drugs and alcohol and crimes, and that’s pretty much what happens from then on. The characterisation of women is utterly ridiculous, misogyny over misogyny. Boris from all was my least favourite character, he enraged me every time he opened his mouth. I feel the book had an interesting storyline, it could have been developed in something amazing, but, the ableism, racist and sexist quotations stops this book from being good. At the end the book results flat, most parts could have easily being left out, and with no development.