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Brat Farrar

Josephine Tey

3.98 AVERAGE

alice_horoshev's review

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

shalini_rasamdaa's review against another edition

4.0

What an interesting story, if a little predictable. It was obvious from the beginning what had happened. I predicted two things which is proven, but such revelations are pretty common for thrillers like this. Interesting ending, though.

Great book for a weekend read.

graff_fuller's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Many years ago (mid-90s), I found the author, Josephine Tey (actually Margaret McIntosh). She was a contemporary of Agatha Christie...and had an ability to write really unique stories...that I loved.

I seemed to fly through her works, loving each and everyone of them, but for some reason...I got distracted by other authors/writings and never completed her catalog. I am now trying to complete the ones that I had not previously read.

This story was NOT what I thought it was going to be, going in. It was a discovery type story.

At first, I thought that Brat Farrar was going to be the bad guy, and I wasn't too sure that I was going to like THAT. As the story progresses, I realized that I had been looking at it from a different angle...than the author intended,..and I liked her view a LOT better.

It took a bit...to get used to the writing style, again...but once into the rhythm...I really loved it.

Each of the characters were really well characterized. The protagonist is to BECOME someone who disappeared 10 years earlier, and because of the striking similarities in looks, a person devised a plan to receive money from this ruse.

As Brat is impersonating Patrick Ashby, his twin brother questions him about who he is.

And from there...things are revealed that open up another thread of inquiry It really was/a good story.

By the end, I was in tears. The story touched me...and again shows how this author really did have a great gift of writing unique stories.

So sad about her early demise.