This was also around about the time that I realised that most of the secondary characters could be cut and the story would plod along just fine, if a little more quickly and with a tighter narrative. Half-way through the book I stopped caring who anybody was or why they were buying £100,000 rugs, wearing 3-foot-tall wigs or worrying about their children attending Eton. There is an ensemble cast of at least eighteen different characters, each with a section dedicated to their point of view, but only four of them are essential to the progression of the plot. The large cast of characters and their sub-plots are exhausting. The first is that it’s just too long and the second is that it’s dull. There are two major problems with The Improbability of Love.
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