Il ragazzo con gli occhi blu

"The world turns not on love, or even money, but on obsession." Well this was an absolute mindfuck. To the point where I may not sleep tonight. Three brothers - black, brown and blue. An abusive parent. A gift of words having smells and colours connected with them. An online webpage full of fictional Leggi tutto

This is probably one of the most difficult reviews I have written in a long while, for two reasons: 1) I am a HUGE Joanne Harris fan; I have read nearly all her books and just adore them - except for this one 2) I really had no idea what was going on for most of this book. How do I even explain? Let’ Leggi tutto

It was with great trepidation that I embarked on this literary voyage as I had glanced at a few not so favourable reviews (will I ever learn??). Anyway, better to get this out of the way at the beginning – there is no chocolate, no magic, no wine, no fruit except for some rotten fruit juice. I have Leggi tutto

Harris may be better-known for her lighter works of magical realism, but she can write a twisty, dark psychological thriller like almost no one else. Like her earlier Gentlemen and Players , this is a multiple-perspective narrative which toys with the many assumptions readers make about identity,

Era uma leitora assídua da escritora. Gosto em particular do dom de que ela dispõe para descrever as sensações, os cheiros, os sabores, as cores, destacando-se de uma forma muito sua que me seduziu e me tornou fã. Este é um género pérfido com o qual não me identifiquei nada. Senti-me defraudada, dete Leggi tutto

I thought I would love this, as I recently read Joanne Harris's 'Gentlemen and Players', which I thought was a superb book, and was told this was in the same vein. It has considerable similarities, based again on the idea of concealing your identity, and even set in the same town (the fictional scho Leggi tutto

I tried several times to get into this book. I never give up on reading a book but I did this time. In fact I brough it with me to France and have left it there. I hope they have better luck than me reading it. An absolute mess it was. A shame, I had high hopes for it. Even bought it twice. I had le Leggi tutto

Ho trovato il thriller altamente "disturbante", ho versato in uno stato d'angoscia per tutta la narrazione, ma nello stesso tempo, non riuscivo a metterlo giù. Una lettura con molteplici punti di vista da tener presenti e il lettore non può fare a meno di fare varie congetture, ipotesi, da capire co Leggi tutto