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A review by vkellermann89
Rushing to Paradise by J.G. Ballard
4.0
[4.5/5]
“Death, for Dr Barbara, was a secret door through which the threatened and the weary could slip to safety.”
Wow... I’m lost for words, what a beautiful crafted tragic story... I didn’t much about this story going into it, but firstly it’s easy to read, and I was just trying to observe Neil after I realised quite early on that I didn’t trust Dr Barbara at all... but trying to be in Neil’s place with your own lost sence of being after his father died and a mother who is depressed, I was trying to see when the curtain would drop for Neil.
And contrary to some of Ballard’s other novels. This didn’t lose its momentum, holding back info from the read but giving a little more than he is giving Neil and I was invested from start to finish.
“Death, for Dr Barbara, was a secret door through which the threatened and the weary could slip to safety.”
Wow... I’m lost for words, what a beautiful crafted tragic story... I didn’t much about this story going into it, but firstly it’s easy to read, and I was just trying to observe Neil after I realised quite early on that I didn’t trust Dr Barbara at all... but trying to be in Neil’s place with your own lost sence of being after his father died and a mother who is depressed, I was trying to see when the curtain would drop for Neil.
And contrary to some of Ballard’s other novels. This didn’t lose its momentum, holding back info from the read but giving a little more than he is giving Neil and I was invested from start to finish.