Review: Amusing, yet rambling narrative.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 8, 2013
This is the story of an antiques art dealer who teams up with a criminal acquaintance in a small village in France to steal a piece of artwork from a convent. What seems like a simple task leads the two, instead, down a road of hilarious mishaps and bad luck.The book is well written and filled with a cast of quirky characters from the French village. It is written using a British dialect, so some of the terminology and phrasing can be confusing if you are used to a North American English dialect. This, however, did not take away from the story at all for me.The first person narrative was very amusing, but rambled quite a bit. While it served to give good characterization of the main character, I found the ramblings to be excessive. Although the musings were funny, he would constantly go off into full paragraphs about subjects and stories that really had nothing to do with anything. And after a while it became a bit too much for me.In conclusion, I liked it. The story is funny and the characters are interesting. The only thing I could have done without was some of the unnecessary lengthy thoughts from the main character.