CHRONICLE – Critics were unanimously enthusiastic about this romance worthy of a Brazilian telenovela. It’s not because she has the same editor that Emma Becker has to start writing like Mélissa Da Costa.
A bored married woman falls in love with a snob: this is the pitch of The Princess of Cleves, d’Anna Karenina and of Madame Bovary . After these masterpieces, about a billion novels have told exactly the same story of adultery, with varying dosages of sex (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) and romance (Beautiful of the Lord). In the series, I really liked Misconduct by Emma Becker (2022) with her naughty Anaïs Nin-style perfume. At the time, Emma Becker hoped for the Castel Prize and did not get it. Pretty Evil begins there: a novelist who does not receive the Castel prize sleeps with a fellow aristocrat.
Nothing to wake up at night. Critics were unanimously enthusiastic (a little quickly) for this romance worthy of a Brazilian telenovela. It’s not because she has the same editor that Emma Becker has to start writing like Mélissa Da Costa. The problem is not moral, but literary: Pretty Evil is especially bad…
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