The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

I could NOT get into this!

I picked this up on a whim at WHPL when picking up Without Mercy.  It was on display and the jacket I read while waiting in line sounded intriguing.

I've tried to read this since writing the review for the Jefferson Bass novel.  I pick it up and put it down.  Finally, I am giving it up about 1/3 of the way in.  It pains me to do so, but as I tell all of my students, sometimes it just isn't doing it for you, no matter how your thing you think the book was going to be!

Paraphrased from the jacket: an opera singer in Paris is given the chance of a lifetime--the leading role in a new production, claimed to be written just for her voice.  But Lilliet knows the truth--this opera is based on her real life and there are very few people who know the truth to divulge it to this writer/composer.

I really wanted to like this, but I found Lilliet tiresome and her supporting characters boring.

A no from me.

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