Book Review: Sacre Bleu

Book: Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore

Source: Library

Rating: 1 star

Review:

After I read the description, I really wanted to give this book a read especially since I love art. Sad to say this was really boring and it felt like the author decided to cram every well known artists (writers and other well know figures) that he could think of into this story instead of creating an interesting story. The story really made no sense.

The story drags on as it tries to weave a mystery as to why legendary painter Vincent van Gogh may have committed suicide and it's possible connection to a strange little man who sales paint to artists as well as the women who have inspire the artists. There was never any real explanation as to what was the reason for van Gogh's death in association with this story.

It's a shame this story wasn't very good because the premise is very interesting and had a lot of promise but it took forever for the mystery to begin. And it's a rather long winded dialogue heavy story. The so called humor wasn't even funny as well as the story continuously bounced back and forth from the past to the present.

The best thing about this was the artwork that was included in the story because the story was awful. There were times when the writing was good but overall it was pretty bad.

I found the mystery to be ridiculous and when Lucien Lessard and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec finally figure out what was going on they didn't really seem that bothered by it.

I was truly disappointed by the end, because I thought Lucien was at least smarter than to continue on with everything that was happening. But he did and it was all because he was in love (which was more like infatuation and obsession). What was the point of Lucien and Henri trying to figure out what's going if nothing really changed.