Love in the Time of Cholera

Okay, I'm sorry, I just don't get the hype. The prose and everything were brilliantly done, poetry almost. HOWEVER, the MMC was awful, AND a pedophile - grooming a 14 year old girl whose parents had entrusted him to look after because he could see how beautiful she would become?! Disgusting. I know time/place/culture, I get that, but he was grateful after she kills herself when he ends their "affair" that she didn't tell her parents. I'm sorry, but that screams that he was well aware that he was doing something wrong.

Loved the FMC, until she gives in to MMC, her pragmatism and realization that she was just infatuated, though abrupt, garnered her my respect.