Paloma Ainsa
Auteur de Room 702
Œuvres de Paloma Ainsa
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 12
- Popularité
- #813,248
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Honestly, this is an enjoyable book, but it's nothing new. Every conversation, every plot line, every character quirk has been done to death. The entire book is cliche after cliche -- which isn't automatically a bad thing. The writing was lively enough to keep me going, but I still had the whole book figured out by approximately page 30.
The biggest thing for me was probably the characters and the strong dislike that I felt for most of them. Nobody was particularly likeable, including the two main characters. Emma's incessant whining, complaining, and clinginess was exhausting. John was a jerk, regardless of his charismatic jokes or generous gifts. Emma's friends were offensive and annoying, and Emma's mother was obviously written to be hated -- only tolerable in the presence of small children. The only character I found remotely likeable (and even he had to grow on me) was Leo, a mutual friend of Emma and John.
But even though I disliked the characters and could predict literally everything that happened, I still more or less enjoyed this book. I feel that the quality of the translation was a big reason for this. As someone with a degree in both Spanish and Linguistics, who has done translations for fun and for grades, I have to give this translator a big pat on the back for avoiding all the telltale signs of a translated work.
Final rating: somewhere between 2.5 and 3 stars
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