The Swan Thieves : A Novel (Paperback)

from ladymacbeth1

I didn't love this book. Didn't hate it, but didn't love it. My disappointment may be greater because The Historian is one of my all-time favorites. I've read it 4 times. My expectations for Swan Thieves, therefore, were high. Much of what I didn't like about it centers around how it begins. One ...

from fyrefly98

Summary: One day, a man wanders into the National Gallery of Art and tries to attack a painting - Leda and the Swan by Gilbert Thomas - with a knife. When he's admitted to psychiatric care, Robert Oliver will only say "I did it for her," and then refuses to speak again. Dr. Marlowe, his psychiatr...

from MayaArb

I admit my impressions of this book are probably colored by my extreme love of her first book, so I was disappointed in the Swan Thieves. While the characters were well developed they were selfish and difficult to establish an empathic bond with, and I found the mystery itself to be too transpare...

from iluvvideo

A long, slow meandering read. I was very excited to read the next novel of author Elizabeth Kostova after loving The Historian. I had a hard time getting through this one however. The story is about a painter who is arrested while trying to attack a painting in the National Gallery of Art with a ...

from bnbooklady

I want to love Elizabeth Kostova for her beautiful prose and carefully researched, fully realized settings and her skillful use of multiple narrators and narrative formats, but all of the warm and fuzzy feelings I have for her in the beginning are diluted by my frustration with the unnecessary le...