A review by snowhitereads
Carol by Patricia Highsmith, Claire Morgan

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

 
Merry Christmas everyone.
I hope everyone is well.

For my Christmas book, I read Carol by Patricia Highsmith.

Carol (originally titled The Price of Salt) is a classic of LGBTQ+ literature. Written in the 1950s, and of course Highsmith doesn't paint a picture of an alternative utopian society in the early 1950s where being LGBT is suddenly universally accepted, there are a fair number of obstacles for the two to overcome. 

However, this book is a bit slow for my taste and i didn’t really like the characters. Their behaviours are at times toxic.

Of course I think it is easy to sometimes overlook how truly revolutionary this novel was at the time it was first published. 

Despite my personal opinion on this book, it is a really important piece of LGBT literature. 
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