Books like The Blue Afternoon

I'm so disappointed in this book. The whole premise, that an architect on the verge of a successful career would drop everything to travel to Europe with a stranger who says he's her father, is just ridiculous. Because it's Boyd, I overlooked the convenience of it as a mechanism for telling Cariscant's story but I just couldn't get into it at all. I left not caring what happened. I'm glad this isn't the first of Boyd's books that I've read because, if it had been, it would be the last. There are far too many descriptions of places, objects and people which add nothing to the storyline to the point that I began to think he was being paid for quantity not quality. I realise my views don't mirror the majority of reviewers and I'm sorry if I've offended any Boyd fans. It just goes to show that we should never judge a book by its reviews. The only way to judge it is to read it yourself. In the end, it's all down to personal taste and this just wasn't for me.