Ahhhh, this book was so great! I loved it so much! I'll never get over Donna Tartt's awfully magnificent writing! She has such a way with words that I don't think I've seen many authors use and I cannot praise her enough for that.

Despite how much I LOVED this book, I have a few icks that I want to mention since there is no such thing as a perfect book/story. 

When I started reading The Goldfinch I thought that some things could be skipped, it didn't have to include so many things in such little detail. And going back to that thought now I can disagree with myself and actually claim the complete opposite! I loved the details, they helped me build a better picture of every situation, which was great. I also reviewed the comments about the movie that's been made and honestly speaking? I'd rather not have it break my imagination bubble and will skip watching it. But here comes my first problem (slight spoiler) -

when Theo's dad died it was so sudden and with so little detail that it almost felt unreal. The moment was off, there wasn't a thorough explanation about it, it was just mentioned and that was it? It felt strange compared to every other well-detailed situation in the book. It was as if it didn't happen at all!

 

Another thing that felt weird is (another spoiler)

when Theo was left alone in his hotel room after the painting got stolen and had all those hallucinations and paranoia moments such as when he wanted to end his life and felt only grief and sorrow. To me, that felt more like the end of the book and I accepted it as it was. But then it shifted so drastically that the actual "happy" end gave me zero emotions. I do not mean to say that the last chapter was bad but I wouldn't have been very upset if the book ended with Theo killing himself (I'm so sorry I had to say this, please don't throw rocks at me!).

 

All in all, The Goldfinch was such a great journey and I'm always gonna be captivated by Donna Tartt's ability to make me feel all the emotions. There was not a single moment where I was bored and that's a rarity. This woman deserves a big thumbs up. Good job, miss Tartt!