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i loved this. though at first i was a bit confused by the formatting of the nonlinearity, i soon figured it out and it was smooth sailing from there.
i love that claire isn't afraid to get twisty in her littrachur, especially in ways this harrowing, there is one scene in particular here that, due to sheer beauty, will stick with me for a long time, I always approach a book with an open mind, no matter the genre or topic, But that being said, I didn't expect this book to be in my limited favorites shelf,
I was amazed on many levels with this book, The authors description of the setting was vivid, I read before I fall asleep and upon closing my eyes I still could see the tree's, the hut and the rest of the scenery in detail.
It was like I was right there,
The turn of events at every corner made it a hard book to put down, It was amazing how the author writes and makes everything flow together, but then at the end she makes you doubt and question things and you can see how things could have been different.
I can't really explain better without spoiling the whole story,
I got so into the book that upon ranting and raving about certain events in the book to my husband he turns and laughs, saying "You really got into this book didn't you.
" Yes, Yes I did. I have nothing bad to say about this book,
This book has the potential to be one of the must read books of,
I received this book for free for my honest review, All opinions are my own and I have not promised nor am I required to give a positive review for this book.
This debut novel was brilliant, It's one of my new favorite books,
Peggy Hillcoat, anyearold girl, is taken away from her home by her father one day, He tells her that the world has ended and that the rest of her family is dead, They are the only two people in the world left, They live together off of very little in a completely rundown cabin in the woods, When she finally comes back to her mother nine years later, they both discover the truth about what happened out there in the wilderness and back home
before they left.
The characters and the world that they build for themselves is so vivid, A story about two people alone in the woulds could easily become boring and get bogged down by details about surviving with very little though I do love those kinds of details.
Their situation shone, because we learned so much about them, their relationships with each other, and their previous relationships with people like Peggy's mother as time goes on.
Both Peggy and her father are still wrapped up in the past and their own dreams, that they get very involved in certain projects like building Peggy a noiseless piano.
It takes them a while to really learn how to take care of themselves and each other, But something is very clearly changing in her father, And once Peggy discovers a pair of boots in the woods, everything starts to unravel and fall apart,
I loved that the book jumped back and forth between Peggy's time as an adult back home with her mother and when she is a child with her father.
The tension that's created is superb and everything is revealed with expert timing, I was too absorbed in the story to even think once about what Fuller was slowly doing,
This is a very quick, dark, and heartwrenching read, Fuller's prose is absolutely exquisite, At so many chapter endings I felt completely blown away and ready to race into the next chapter, Her writing and pacing sucked me in entirely, I couldn't stop reading. And it's not a thriller or a mystery, really, It is wellwritten, unnerving literary fiction that feels absolutely human and real, And, wow, what an ending,
Full review: sitelink blogspot. com/ One sign of a five star is it deepens our understanding of books weve previously read amp now I feel I can relate better to Elizabeth Flocks Me amp Emma.
In Our Endless Numbered Days, Peggy is a victim of really terrible child abuse, but like Carrie in Me amp Emma, she is too young amp naive to be aware that what is happening to her is far from normal amp of quite how badly she is being treated by a father or stepfather who ought to have the child protective services descending on him like the Furies.
Such stories have a particular poignancy we feel love amp pity for the suffering child, admiration for her courage amp endurance, amp anger the parents for committing or condoning such abuse.
In the case of Ute why do Germans give their children such ugly names, I felt she cared much more about her career than about her daughter, even before her father obviously more than a burrito shy of a combination platter abducts her.
Because we see things from only Peggys childseye POV, tho, were less likely object to such improbabilities, as we wonder as well how father amp daughter could find a location in Western Europe remote enough to remain in nine years without encountering any other campers amp hikers or spotting an aircraft overhead, especially in a location with a goodsized hut with a woodburning stove.
While I noticed the unlikelihood of the setting straight off, it was only gradually that we realise that in Peggy we have an unreliable narrator.
I find these both fascinating amp frustrating, When they are flatout liars or deliberately withhold essential information, I congratulate myself on my acuity if I see through them or get very annoyed with the author such as Sophie Hannah if I dont.
More interesting are narrators who are too young or inexperienced to know whats really going on Charles Dickens, Mark Twain amp William Faulkner created some wonderful examples.
I felt Emma Donahue rather overdid this effect in Room, Finally we have narrators who are unreliable because they are supposed to be delusional, But often that is for the reader to decide, For example, Jamess The Turn of the Screw is a totally different story if you accept the ghosts as really being there, as opposed to thinking they are figments of the governesss unconscious.
Personally I find it much easier to believe in ghosts than to believe in Freudian psychoanalysis, But how should we classify Peggy Read the rest of this review after youve read the book, then please let me know what you think.
But whatever you decide, I expect youll find this an excellent read with much to reflect on,
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