Preeta's review
The Outcast
by Sadie Jones
Preeta's review
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Preeta's review
rating:
recommended for: people with beating hearts
It took me a few chapters to warm to the prose, which felt a bit clumsy at first -- like big grey blocks the writer kept dropping on my foot -- but as I grew to love the protagonist, I came to see the prose as an essential part of him, an expression of his tortured thought patterns. Which is interesting because the narrative is in shifting close 3rd-person points of view, but Lewis's voice -- or what I came to see as Lewis's voice, angry and raw and intense, colours the whole thing. In the end I couldn't not love Lewis or his story; this isn't a perfect book, but it has Passion, and for that I'm always willing to close one eye to other flaws. It made me cry, and I can never resist a book that does that.
Longer review coming -- I hope -- on Anne's new website, Fiction Writers Review (http://fictionwritersreview.co....
Longer review coming -- I hope -- on Anne's new website, Fiction Writers Review (http://fictionwritersreview.co....
