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I felt cheated by Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves:
She does a beautiful job of showing what it's like to be in a relationship with a person who is unable to be in a relationship, but I'm not sure why we needed both a wife and a girlfriend to have the same kind of experience. But that would have been OK. What bothered me was how she led us on with the hints of something beyond the natural (and of course her previous book had fulfilled that promise, in excellent fashion). So when what lay behind the mysterious obsession that dominated one life and twisted many others turned out just to be blackmail, it was a serious let-down. There were so many intriguing things she could have done--time travel, having art come to life, etc. I'm not sure why she chose the plot she did.
She does a beautiful job of showing what it's like to be in a relationship with a person who is unable to be in a relationship, but I'm not sure why we needed both a wife and a girlfriend to have the same kind of experience. But that would have been OK. What bothered me was how she led us on with the hints of something beyond the natural (and of course her previous book had fulfilled that promise, in excellent fashion). So when what lay behind the mysterious obsession that dominated one life and twisted many others turned out just to be blackmail, it was a serious let-down. There were so many intriguing things she could have done--time travel, having art come to life, etc. I'm not sure why she chose the plot she did.