By Slanted Light

Thanks again for sending me this - I just read it this morning. And although there were times during it that I felt a bit impatient and thought I was only going to read on because it was so short, actually I ended up thinking it was rather good. Hee, I did keep reading 'Kitty Fisher' instead of 'Kitty Finch', and was a little irritated with the rather kooky way of her, but the whole thing was rather wonderfully dreamy I thought, in terms of language and the overall effect. It sort of mesmerised me. And as long as it's done well (which, subjectively, I thought it was) I can be a sucker for sex/death metaphors and all that :) Already I'm flashing back to parts and want to read them again! I do agree that the device at the end with the fast forwarding wasn't great although I did like the "life must always win us back" line in relation to dreams - and didn't feel it was a 'life isn't worth living' book at all, but more 'life is so very fragile'.

Anyhow, I'm glad to have read it, so yay to book posts! (And, actually, to all of us liking different things!)