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rhiannabeth 's review for:
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
by Liz Jensen
Well, alright then. I think I'll just sit and finish my tea while I get over the biggest plot twist ever. I didn't see the ending coming, but not only that, having the characters in exactly the same position and psychoanalysing WHY I didn't see it was both incredibly clever and uncomfortable. Not dissimilar to Lolita I imagine, and equally disturbing for entirely different reasons. Pacing was good, characters more than a little bit deplorable in places but very human, and the plot was intriguing enough to make me willing to suffer them. The use of voice and narration was masterful, and I'm not sure I've read many other books that could have pulled it all off quite so effectively and dramatically. However clever it was, however, I didn't e joy reading it very much. It's definitely crossing over into Literary fiction in some respects.