Review: The Swans of Fifth Avenue

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book is the perfect example of how to be rich but unhappy. Clothes, trips, big houses, lots of alcohol and drugs... bad combination.

This is a fiction book, but based on the true story of how Truman Capote lost the friendship of his "Swans", the worldly socialites who loved him, pampered him and made his life easy and beautiful. That is until he decided to publish a story about them.
The swans are beautiful, exquisitely dressed and shallow. Capote is enchanted, and makes each one of them believe she is her best friend and muse.

Capote is a strange character, a genius when it came to writing, but not an attractive personality, at least in this book. The swans are beautiful, bored and boring.
This is not, in my opinion, a book where you get to like the characters, and it probably isn't important, but at the same time it made me like the book less than I expected.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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