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August 23, 2012
I love raiding charity shops for books as you never know when you might stumble across a gem. This was one of those times. Although it’s not brilliantly written, it is imaginative and clever.
Lexander evolves his main character Michael over three sections titled ‘Birth’, ‘Growth’ and ‘Decay.’ We first meet Michael as he wakes from a coma now blind. He is incredibly child-like and we are taken along his journey of coming to understand the world around him and what’s happened to him. Gradually with the help of his doctor Rebecca and his nurse Suzanne, he slowly becomes more like the person he was before. Michael is a great character who you can’t help but like and Lexander writes it fantastically from his perspective. Michael’s relationships with the other characters are interesting and it’s curious to see how they react to Michael’s new disability.
The plot is fantastic and very well thought out. Although it’s a murder mystery, it doesn’t feel like it is until the last twenty pages or so. Lexander subtly weaves you along this journey to ultimately find out who the murderer is. It’s very clever and I failed to guess who it was.
The main downside of this work however was the style of writing. Whilst it flowed quickly, it wasn’t of a great standard and I found it dragged on certain parts, in particular in excerpts from Virtues Harbinger, which was the novel Michael was working on prior to his coma.
Aside from that it was a great and intelligent book full of surprising twists that made it very entertaining.
Lexander evolves his main character Michael over three sections titled ‘Birth’, ‘Growth’ and ‘Decay.’ We first meet Michael as he wakes from a coma now blind. He is incredibly child-like and we are taken along his journey of coming to understand the world around him and what’s happened to him. Gradually with the help of his doctor Rebecca and his nurse Suzanne, he slowly becomes more like the person he was before. Michael is a great character who you can’t help but like and Lexander writes it fantastically from his perspective. Michael’s relationships with the other characters are interesting and it’s curious to see how they react to Michael’s new disability.
The plot is fantastic and very well thought out. Although it’s a murder mystery, it doesn’t feel like it is until the last twenty pages or so. Lexander subtly weaves you along this journey to ultimately find out who the murderer is. It’s very clever and I failed to guess who it was.
The main downside of this work however was the style of writing. Whilst it flowed quickly, it wasn’t of a great standard and I found it dragged on certain parts, in particular in excerpts from Virtues Harbinger, which was the novel Michael was working on prior to his coma.
Aside from that it was a great and intelligent book full of surprising twists that made it very entertaining.
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