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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
5.0

Imagine if Harry Potter wasn't introduced into the magical world. What would have happened with his life. Well, Theo's story gives an idea of how it would have been. I tell you this because the narrative style was so much similar to that of Harry's. That gloomy, self blaming, careless, over thinking, but at times smart of Harry Potter is what Theo is. The book is quite slow paced and I love those kind of books because of it's taking time to introduce us into the settings and it's characters. I loved Donna's writing style so much. She has written only the best part of all characters. And I would say Boris character was kind of interesting and that's what made the Las Vegas scenes lively. Most people didn't like the Las Vegas setting but tbh, I loved it. That was needed for explaining the friendship between Theo and Boris. But I felt that Donna gave some useless hope between those two characters in the end of that scene which was really disappointing. I expected more between them. And the another thing I was disappointed was the blurb at the back of the cover. This book isn't what they have mentioned in that. There is more to the story. This is a coming of age story, there are so many emotions, friendship and love. Because of that blurb I was keep on expecting more actions but there were nothing except some 20 pages in the last chapter. I would have still read this book if they have written a proper blurb. But overall, I enjoyed reading this book so much.

Rating : 4.5/5