Christina reviewed Paying guests by E. F. Benson
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3 stars
This took a long time for me to complete. Some passages in novels bog me down and I cannot get through three paragraphs without losing interest. This isn't one of E.F. Benson's best; the point of attracting my fascination is the introduction of a romance between two guests, and the end is mean-spirited. The mean-spiritedness hopscotches from beginning to end, but it's clunky and awkward, and the capriciousness of some characters is unsupported by established traits.
This took a long time for me to complete. Some passages in novels bog me down and I cannot get through three paragraphs without losing interest. This isn't one of E.F. Benson's best; the point of attracting my fascination is the introduction of a romance between two guests, and the end is mean-spirited. The mean-spiritedness hopscotches from beginning to end, but it's clunky and awkward, and the capriciousness of some characters is unsupported by established traits.