The Goldfinch

3.75*
I understand why Stephen King liked this so much, characters with a lot of background story, ‘unnecessary' details and lots of plot (relevant or not). Some parts of this book I absolutely loved and other parts I had trouble dragging myself through. In the beginning of this book I was very excited and hopeful, this lasted during most of the Las Vegas parts, but soon after my interest started going down. I did like the parts with Hobie and a lot of the time spent with Boris but even they weren't enough to keep me really excited. This review might not sound too satisfied with the book and in some ways I'm not, but what I value a lot in this book is the style of writing and the story overall. That is why I rounded up to 4 stars.

(I have also seen the movie. It's pretty accurate but was not all it could have been.)