“Luckily, pretentious through and through, I had read Dante’s Purgatorio in its original language before.”
Thank you Love Book Tours for the chance to be a part of this book tour!
Not gonna lie, I kinda loved loved loved the cover which is why I signed up for this book!
The author certainly has a style, and I would have liked it if I didn’t hate Cordelia so much as a person. I just think she’s an awful pretentious ass and I feel sorry for her ex-fiancé and her siblings. I would have felt better if this had turned into stephens kings Misery and doctor Locke had murdered her. Its been a while since I read a book with a main that I hated this much. For example, she only reads classics and turns her nose up at contemporary stuff; that’s the most insufferable you can get. I also didn’t feel the connection between her and the dude.
However, I did like the author's literature references. Mary Spencer is clearly very well-read. She has a style of writing that most people will either love or hate and that's fine. I do think that I would have liked it if the main and other characters sounded a bit different from one another; like one nice normal person in the book would have made me want to murder Cordelia less (or more, you never know really). The ending was unexpected; I really didn’t think that would happen! And I do appreciate that Cordelia is aware of how annoying she is.
Interesting read as a whole and I loved all the classics and mythology references!
Incidentally, my full review is here if you want to read it:
https://the-girl-who-reads.com/the-last-great-american-tragedy-by-mary-spencer-book-tour-and-review/