Part DOS

I finished...yayyy...my second book in 5 MONTHS!? Such a shame. I must return to my love, and this book was a significant step.

So, on the mystery front, I didn't find this book to be hugely amAzing or revelatory. I kind of wish that they hadn't told you from the beginning that it was one of the three miniaturists...because they really had a fairly small part in the book as a whole it felt. It didn't really feel you were connected to any of them in one way or another, so the discovery of which one was the murderer was fairly anti-climactic.

I didn't really end up loving any of the characters, which I think was the point and not a bad thing, but it made me sad that all of the characters kind of let me down. Well, Esther seemed to be the one character who was moderately consistent with what you knew of her. And Hasan, weirdly, went up in opinion by the end of the book, though his role overall was fairly minor.

The style of writing was quite beautiful, and it definitely made me want to go to Istanbul...in the winter of course. My favorite chapters were the ones told by the storytellers about the various illustrations. So entertaining and artful!

And now, to put it in not so classy words but which thoroughly describe how I feel right now, I'm going to make War and Peace my bitch. Eep!