inta gertnere

While I enjoyed the beginning of the novel, and had high expectations, by the middle of I was bored. For one thing, there is not much character development. In fact, the main character, Elizabeth Zott, feels less like a flawed, evolving human and more like a symbolic crusader — static, sometimes unlikeable, and often unbelievable. She sounds more like a modern woman parachuted into the 1950s–60s, rather than someone shaped by that era. Her complaints on the cooking show about “libertarian trash” such as the “invisible hand” and her explicit scientific monologues strain believability.