**spoiler alert** This “sweeping epic” goes from WWII Paris to Harlem to the Upper East Side to Miami to Havana to Key West to Miami to Harlem and bac**spoiler alert** This “sweeping epic” goes from WWII Paris to Harlem to the Upper East Side to Miami to Havana to Key West to Miami to Harlem and back to Paris across the span of 15 years. You learn nothing about any of it. Characters are cardboard thin. It’s all in first-person present tense. The main character/narrator changes in no way. It’s all tell and no show and it’s preposterous that we are supposed to accept her (the main character) as a talented novelist making a name for herself.
There is nothing here.
It triggers no emotions and you don’t learn anything new....more
It's like listening to your cousin in another state give you high school gossip. It just goes on and on and it jumps through time and it also is hard It's like listening to your cousin in another state give you high school gossip. It just goes on and on and it jumps through time and it also is hard to keep track of. And it is not even revelatory or exciting details.
Also... Tina Brown hates Meghan Markle. The contempt she has for Meghan Markle's perfectly ordinary and unexpected actions as a working actress drips off the page. It is shocking. Especially when you compare how she describes Meghan Markle doing perfect ordinary things to get through life compared to how she describes Kate doing some pretty outrageous things to land a man.
At one point she criticizes Meghan for saying that she had gotten a scholarship to attend Northwestern. BUT BUT BUT her DAD ALSO PAID MONEY for her to go to Northwestern. LOLWUT? That's how college works here, in the United States. Tina Brown even somehow holds against Meghan the fact that Suits the TV show was shot in Toronto instead of NYC. And that also Meghan was 35 and hadn't had a kid yet and is almost 40 now or something. It's ridiculous.
I'm not sure it's even a good book for people who love the British Royal Family and want to hear all the gossip. It's just a mess....more
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