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A review by jmatkinson1
The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris
4.0
Jasper is not a normal boy. He likes order and routine and he hears noises in terms of colours. When a new neighbour appears in his street Jasper is fascinated by her colours, so similar to his dead mother's. When she encourages parakeets to nest in the trees outside her house then Jasper is even more entranced. However Bee is making enemies amongst the neighbours with her eccentricity and noise and Jasper finds himself being manipulated.
This book has a lot of terrific reviews but when I first started reading I found it slow and a little frustrating. However I'm glad that I persevered as the story is like an onion and only as the layers get peeled away does the true complexity of the story get revealed. Jasper is an interesting narrator, Harris has really got inside the mind of troubled boy and his memory gaps. By the end I was avidly reading to find out who actually was the killer and why, even this gave an extra twist. What seems a very safe book is actually very dark.
This book has a lot of terrific reviews but when I first started reading I found it slow and a little frustrating. However I'm glad that I persevered as the story is like an onion and only as the layers get peeled away does the true complexity of the story get revealed. Jasper is an interesting narrator, Harris has really got inside the mind of troubled boy and his memory gaps. By the end I was avidly reading to find out who actually was the killer and why, even this gave an extra twist. What seems a very safe book is actually very dark.