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A review by shaniceh
The Flames by Sophie Haydock
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers for this free eARC in exchange for an honest review.
I have to admit I requested this book solely because of the cover; I read this book as pure fiction, I know the author took liberties, I didn't know how much was the truth or close to the truth until I took it upon myself to furiously google the people in this book. Luckily Sophie Haydock tells you herself all the things she added in the end. I really appreciated that and I have a new appreciation for these people who I had no idea existed before reading this book... Not the artist, not the artwork and certainly not the muses.
What Sophie does with this debut book truly is beautiful. Written through the eyes of the women affected and used by an idealistic artist you see the women who lived outside the confines of those drawings. In the end, this book does leave you sad for lives cut short and the knowledge that we just won't ever truly know how these women truly felt but at least they will never be forgotten.
I have to admit I requested this book solely because of the cover; I read this book as pure fiction, I know the author took liberties, I didn't know how much was the truth or close to the truth until I took it upon myself to furiously google the people in this book. Luckily Sophie Haydock tells you herself all the things she added in the end. I really appreciated that and I have a new appreciation for these people who I had no idea existed before reading this book... Not the artist, not the artwork and certainly not the muses.
What Sophie does with this debut book truly is beautiful. Written through the eyes of the women affected and used by an idealistic artist you see the women who lived outside the confines of those drawings. In the end, this book does leave you sad for lives cut short and the knowledge that we just won't ever truly know how these women truly felt but at least they will never be forgotten.