sweetspringchild t1_ivyedvi wrote on November 11, 2022 at 3:17 PM

I had an issue with the dialogue as they both should have been women who are excellent at expressing themselves >!a veteran actress and a good journalist!< but weren't written that way.

Also, any book that goes into extremely detailed description of decor of any room a character walk in (without doing it to create an atmosphere), and long descriptions of what characters are wearing (without it adding anything to characterization) is immediately suspect to me.

Hi-isLiv OP t1_ivyfg9g wrote on November 11, 2022 at 3:24 PM

Completely agree. Evelyn felt shallow as you can imagine a movie star to be. Agreed with the dialogue, maybe it was done to make the book more accessible and to carter to a wider audience.

I prize internal attributes over looks and maybe this was the bias I carried in reading the characters