...I haven’t written a book review in ages but felt that this book, which I recently read deserved an op. It’s so fantastic and one that I couldn’t put down.
Called The Rebel Fairy and is the second book by Deborah Wright who wrote Oliva’s Bliss. It was published this year (2002) by Time Warner books.
It’s quite a light, fun, frothy read and one that could be read in the garden on a summer’s day with a large glass of coke, bliss!
First there’s Jack, he’s a bit of a loser really but he’s handsome and can be quite funny. One evening he has a bet at a game of snooker and ends up losing his flat and his car plus £3000.
Then there’s Leila. Beautiful but a little unemotional when it comes to relationships. She’s seeing Henry. Leila is also an ex of Jack’s if you can call her an ex as they only had a one-night stand, which Jack is only into...
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Advantages: excellent characterizations, beautiful descriptions, believable plot and great romance Disadvantages: Romance novels are not for everyone, may be a bit much for some to get through
...Turner, is forced to throw her husband out of the house until he gets treatment. Olivia is lost and confused by her parent's problems. But things go from bad to worse when one night Olivia wakes from a nightmare and goes looking for her mother. Hearing lovely music, her search takes Oliva downstairs where she finds her mother covered in blood with her father standing over her mother, also covered in blood with a pair of scissors in his hands. Scared to death, Olivia runs and hides in her closet with her stuffed animals.
This is where detective Frank Brady finds her, in shock and unable to move. She is convinced the monster is going to get her. But Brady coaxes her out of the closet where she then clings to him and cries for him to protect her from the monster. The case haunts Brady long after he has locked Sam Turner away. It also comes...
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...and average that his situation may prompt some form of self-examination in the reader. At least in this one it did: I found myself looking for—and finding—parallels between Clerici's thoughts and my own, for isn't acceptance at a some level by society something we all crave?
Alberto Moravia (pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, 1907-1990), the author of this work, lets us to see the world through Clerici's eyes. Moravia was a remarkably astute and perceptive novelist who could write about a character's innermost thoughts with astonishing clarity and depth. Here he has turned Clerici's mind inside out, and through amazing sleight-of-hand renders you one with the character, and yet able stand apart from him, observing his thoughts and actions with both sympathy and objectivity. The novel presents an utterly simple and straightforward lesson about...
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