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panBlimey. This writer REALLY wants you to know she‘s lived in Paris. Every page has intense descriptions of how streets link up and exactly where different shops are, lots of untranslated French, and references to department stores and supermarkets we‘re meant to infer something about the characters from when I don‘t know many Parisian department stores off the top of my head. I‘d understand it if it was a French book but this is an English ⏬
Emilymdxn Woman writing in English. I had to have Wikipedia open on my phone to know whether ‘she was like a waitress from Hotel Costes‘ was a good thing or not. Melodramatic dialogue, and a man who has sex with men becomes well adjusted and gets a girlfriend after going to therapy............. 4y
MayJasper Wow I won't be queuing up for this then 4y
JamieArc Oy. I was all on board with the Paris descriptions but any sort of conversion therapy is a hard no. 4y
Emilymdxn @JamieArc I think I would have liked the Paris description if it had illuminated anything for me about the characters, or even Paris, but it was just like ‘he took this road then turned into this road then turned right down that road and went west for 500 yards‘. The description felt more like listening to a sat nav than a story really. And yes, high key homophobic 4y
AnneCecilie Regarding the Costes reference I think that depends on how you view the waitresses that work there. The waitresses there are tall, skinny and looks like models. 4y
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