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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Genre: Modern Classic
This is the second book I read by F. Scott Fitzgerald after The Great Gatsby. The story in this novel is set in the 1920s in France and is about a young couple, Dick Diver, and his wife, Nicole Diver, and how their marriage has a strong shake-up.
Dick is a psychiatrist, and he marries his patient Nicole, who is a wealthy woman. From the outside, this couple looks happy and appears to be in the perfect marriage, but things from the inside are much more troubling. With the arrival of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt, she and Dick get attracted to each other, and this affair affects the married couple in a big way.
The novel explores some critical subjects like mental health, alcoholism, love, loss, and the effect wealth has on people. So, there are hard-hitting themes that will be relatable to many readers. While the premise sounded quite good to me, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I wanted. I think The Great Gatsby is a better book than this one.
One of the most significant problems with this book is that it moves at a very slow pace. You will need to exercise a great deal of patience until something occurs. If you have a short attention span, you will not be able to connect with a plot that slow. It truly needs lots of patience. If you are OK with that, you may like it. In my opinion, it was merely an average book.
Genre: Modern Classic
This is the second book I read by F. Scott Fitzgerald after The Great Gatsby. The story in this novel is set in the 1920s in France and is about a young couple, Dick Diver, and his wife, Nicole Diver, and how their marriage has a strong shake-up.
Dick is a psychiatrist, and he marries his patient Nicole, who is a wealthy woman. From the outside, this couple looks happy and appears to be in the perfect marriage, but things from the inside are much more troubling. With the arrival of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt, she and Dick get attracted to each other, and this affair affects the married couple in a big way.
The novel explores some critical subjects like mental health, alcoholism, love, loss, and the effect wealth has on people. So, there are hard-hitting themes that will be relatable to many readers. While the premise sounded quite good to me, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I wanted. I think The Great Gatsby is a better book than this one.
One of the most significant problems with this book is that it moves at a very slow pace. You will need to exercise a great deal of patience until something occurs. If you have a short attention span, you will not be able to connect with a plot that slow. It truly needs lots of patience. If you are OK with that, you may like it. In my opinion, it was merely an average book.