Reviews and Comments

Connelly has always done good work and the results are reliable and predictable.

He had even found a way to iron out small quirks that kept irritating me such as lengthy descriptions of Los Angeles.

As usual I enjoyed this new book from him.

Read the French version. So how do you react when you find yourself facing yourself literally, meaning another version of you, same DNA and same memories? Descartes' credo becomes " I think that I think therefore I am".

Unless I'm mistaken her first book. Not as good of course as Little black lies but still a few unexpected twists and surprises.

Never thought that the Falklands could be the settings for so much tension.

After a somewhat slow few pages the pace picks up real quick and never releases you until the last page with many surprising twists along the way.

I'll let you guess how the main character can commit 176 murders and get away with it.

19 th century in France, a girl is sold by her father and is badly mistreated. The narrative alternates between the voices of said daughter, father and mother. The only narrative that carries the story is that of the daughter and the reader doesn't really see what the other narratives are contributing to it. Gets repetitive real early and not too convincing.

Apparently one of the great American novelists but although interesting seemed a bit long to me.

He delves a lot in the domestic everyday life in this work and it's just too much domesticity for me

You need to be either sadist or masochist to endure this work without too much damage. At least 600 of the 720 pages of the book are intense descriptions of intricate sufferings. But I can tell you that you'll never look at your relationship with your significant other the same way ever again as she delves during the whole book on the relationship between the sufferer (Jude) and his friend/lover Willem. Yanagihara in her pursuit of pain is merciless and follows each ramifications to it's bitter end. A life changing work for me.

A beautiful and rich female detective looks for the killer of another rich and beautiful young woman while singing at a karaoke very late into the night when she's short on inspiration and longing for her son who was kidnapped several years ago.

Strangely enough most reviews I've read said that this book was about WWII. True the events in the book do occur during that war but to me WWII was more like a prop than the subject of the work. Basically we see the the drama through the eyes of two children, a French blind girl (in her case of course it's more "we feel") and a German boy. But in fact it's much more about their respective internal worlds than about the war as such and if only to read how a young 15 years old blind girl first discovers the ocean, it's gigantic might and incredible mildness for the first time by sounds, smells and feelings on her skin is worth the effort (or in my case pleasure).

Well written story of a British soldier a bit before and during the war.

Well written with interesting insights into the inner workings of that unique war which was the first one done with modern mechanized instruments of destruction.

In my opinion worth the read just for that.

A novel written as a long poem or a long poem written as a novel, not sure which. The main story is that of an Italian mountaineer helping refugees cross to the other side over the mountains, more or less expelled from his village by his peers, long time friends, because he always returned the money he had taken as a fee once the refugees had arrived on he other side. Going to another bigger town he's asked by the parish priest to undertake the restoration of a statue, originally the naked body of Christ on the cross, later covered by modesty with a layer of marble shaped into a mantel and now adhering to the main work.

As said written as a long sober, curt poem this same sobriety comes dangerously close to pedantism and got on my nerves after not too long.

Interesting nevertheless.