Review: There was really no story...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
Reviewed by JoAnneBook provided by Belle Consulting for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookThis was a quickie – the story itself maybe 15 pages. There was really no story. It was a snapshot of a day in the life of a wounded soldier sent to Venice with his fiancee for R&R.; Because he had “hysterical” blindness, since they could not find any medical reason for his loss of sight, there were vivid descriptions of memories and the day in the rain at a sidewalk cafe. You could picture what Nick was “seeing” based on the wonderful descriptions given. The book itself was almost reminiscent to me of a Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm episode – a story based on nothing that took a half hour to tell plus got laughs. In this story there was no laughter – only darkness – from both his eyesight and the darkness he felt from being in the war and ordering the raid on the village and the seeming loss of love from his fiancee, Margo. Since I have not read other books by Zandri, but heard good things about his writing, I would give another of his books a try.