Review: Gifted & Talented

5 stars

Brilliant. Perfect for a director like Wes Anderson. Simply put: the mean magnata dies and leaves his kids to deal with all from politics, business, bureaucracy, and inner lack of love or trauma. The author gives us multiple POVs, plus a narrator who calls themselves God because this voice is omniscient and will tell us with a cynical, bitter, dark humor tone that the heirs are all rotten to the core. The entire novel is us as readers falling in love with three a@$holes by relating to their pain, their mistakes, their aspirations. We may think we'll side with one heir only, but they all have amazing scenes that make us want to hug them or something they reveal. Life is too close to our own, and understanding, although they are from high society, they are very healthy people. The author will give us enough to see their flaws, but also to empathize. The bailarina who can't dance forever, the politician who just wants to be loved, the genius woman who just wants to succeed. They all wished they could have been loved by their father.

The magic is (for me) their peculiar way to explode and let their depression, pain, and emotions go. There is some witchcraft that gives an interesting (very light, I almost forgot about it) moment during the plot, but to me, it is like emotions.

I suggest an audiobook paired with the book or just audio.

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