Book Review Queen S Gambit

Tevis s novel ends on a bright pleasant note and it s exactly the kind of story we need right now.

Book review queen s gambit. The core of the queen s gambit a young woman struggling to matter at all becomes a great chess player might be impossible for her to play. After beth is placed in the methuen home for orphaned girls she learns to play chess taught to her by the home s custodian and it becomes apparent that she is a true prodigy. The queen s gambit review from an orphanage basement to the top of the chess world anya taylor joy plays a 64 square prodigy in netflix s gorgeous walter tevis adaptation which while heavy on.

The series copies virtually everything from. The queen s gambit a fiction book was a solid 4 star read. Aaron bady argued recently in the los angeles review of books that one of biggest pleasures of netflix s the queen s gambit is that things keep almost going wrong and then being fine.

The book centers around beth harmon a young girl finding herself an orphan after the tragic death of her mother. Even so tevis describes the matches in a way that gives just enough details about the moves to convey their tense psychological and aggressive implications.