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A review by karlyo83
Loyalties by Delphine de Vigan
5.0
My Rating Style: 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ticked all the boxes LOVED IT!!!
First of all thank you to my good friend and fellow Goodreader GirlWithThePinkSkiMask for putting me onto this one. I picked it up for $3 (AUD) at a shopping centre bookstore, what a bargain!!
I am not going to do a recap of the synopsis because this is a really short novella and the synopsis the author has done really captures the essence of the story.
What a tragic tale of loyalties, lies, secrets and destruction!! The story is beautifully written and expresses so much emotion in the short chapters. This is a translation from French to English but I don’t feel like anything is lost in translation at all. As I read this I felt there was a sense of doom and destruction building waiting to come to a head.
I was in a constant state of worry for Theo. Oh Theo I wanted to wrap him in a blanket and mother him the way a parent should. He has the world on his shoulders and is looking for a cheap quick escape from reality.
Helene crosses boundaries in her job as a teacher trying to help Theo and get to the bottom of what is going on and she loses herself in the mission.
Cecile discovers something vile and grisly about her husband and she begins a descent that perhaps there is no coming back from.
Mathias, just wants to be around Theo and protect him from himself but is torn between doing what is the right thing and doing what is the ‘cool’ thing.
Everyone is trying to be loyal to themselves and to others and all the while they are slowly losing pieces of who they are or hoped to become. The adults fail to protect the children and children desperately try to protect the adults. This is a poignant, beautifully written story that will leave you emotionally ruined and a little heartbroken.
First of all thank you to my good friend and fellow Goodreader GirlWithThePinkSkiMask for putting me onto this one. I picked it up for $3 (AUD) at a shopping centre bookstore, what a bargain!!
I am not going to do a recap of the synopsis because this is a really short novella and the synopsis the author has done really captures the essence of the story.
What a tragic tale of loyalties, lies, secrets and destruction!! The story is beautifully written and expresses so much emotion in the short chapters. This is a translation from French to English but I don’t feel like anything is lost in translation at all. As I read this I felt there was a sense of doom and destruction building waiting to come to a head.
I was in a constant state of worry for Theo. Oh Theo I wanted to wrap him in a blanket and mother him the way a parent should. He has the world on his shoulders and is looking for a cheap quick escape from reality.
Helene crosses boundaries in her job as a teacher trying to help Theo and get to the bottom of what is going on and she loses herself in the mission.
Cecile discovers something vile and grisly about her husband and she begins a descent that perhaps there is no coming back from.
Mathias, just wants to be around Theo and protect him from himself but is torn between doing what is the right thing and doing what is the ‘cool’ thing.
Everyone is trying to be loyal to themselves and to others and all the while they are slowly losing pieces of who they are or hoped to become. The adults fail to protect the children and children desperately try to protect the adults. This is a poignant, beautifully written story that will leave you emotionally ruined and a little heartbroken.