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jaimesamms's review
5.0
Huzzah! Not the most enlightened response to a book ever, but so what?
Rarely does it happen that I actually believe the author has really written her
heroes into a corner they will not get out of. I honestly thought this was going
to be a bittersweet ending and no one told me. Then I thought....no, you didn't....
Now, you'll just have to read it for yourself to find out what the hell I'm talking about.
I will say this: Carlos is a complicated man. In a simple, honest and open sort of way.
You can see that what's on the surface is like the facade, the fancy cover foe
what's really there. But you can't see what's really there. You just know it's more than what you're being allowed to see.
I know, the book is written from Candy's POV and that's the character you're meant to get to know. But Carlos. Oh, Carlos. How this author has revealed him through all the things Candy doesn't know or refuses to see about him. Masterful. Something to aspire to.
And I should mention, as well, I could just roll around in this author's prose for days. She just picks an image out of the air and gives it shape and colour and depth and life with so few, perfect words. And not just one or two lucky turns of phrase, which even I manage once in a while ;) I mean consistently, I'll read this again because I know there are delicious things in there I missed the first time through.
Rarely does it happen that I actually believe the author has really written her
heroes into a corner they will not get out of. I honestly thought this was going
to be a bittersweet ending and no one told me. Then I thought....no, you didn't....
Now, you'll just have to read it for yourself to find out what the hell I'm talking about.
I will say this: Carlos is a complicated man. In a simple, honest and open sort of way.
You can see that what's on the surface is like the facade, the fancy cover foe
what's really there. But you can't see what's really there. You just know it's more than what you're being allowed to see.
I know, the book is written from Candy's POV and that's the character you're meant to get to know. But Carlos. Oh, Carlos. How this author has revealed him through all the things Candy doesn't know or refuses to see about him. Masterful. Something to aspire to.
And I should mention, as well, I could just roll around in this author's prose for days. She just picks an image out of the air and gives it shape and colour and depth and life with so few, perfect words. And not just one or two lucky turns of phrase, which even I manage once in a while ;) I mean consistently, I'll read this again because I know there are delicious things in there I missed the first time through.
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