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Even Beyond Death
by Fiona Melrose
I read an advanced digital copy via NetGalley but my thoughts are my own!
This is one of the most enjoyable and unique historical fiction books I’ve read for a long time.
The writing is immersive, fast paced and humorous, plunging the reader directly into the ridiculous world of 1657’s Avignon and Jehan Baudelaire. The amusingly hyperbolic Jehan is somewhat of an unreliable narrator, but we are also provided with the scribe who acts as a pleasant injecting presence to undercut the flamboyance of the narration. However, even without the scribe’s counterpoint, you cannot help but love the whimsical and earnest Jehan and his love story with Mister Kryk. Jehan is ridiculous but the novel provides revealing moments of such genuine emotion that you root for him and his grand, tragic love. The book’s progress is heartbreaking and beautiful, and a thoroughly good book.
This is one of the most enjoyable and unique historical fiction books I’ve read for a long time.
The writing is immersive, fast paced and humorous, plunging the reader directly into the ridiculous world of 1657’s Avignon and Jehan Baudelaire. The amusingly hyperbolic Jehan is somewhat of an unreliable narrator, but we are also provided with the scribe who acts as a pleasant injecting presence to undercut the flamboyance of the narration. However, even without the scribe’s counterpoint, you cannot help but love the whimsical and earnest Jehan and his love story with Mister Kryk. Jehan is ridiculous but the novel provides revealing moments of such genuine emotion that you root for him and his grand, tragic love. The book’s progress is heartbreaking and beautiful, and a thoroughly good book.