Review: Magnificent
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
What you’ve got here is a writer at the top of his game, writing about issues he is clearly passionate about. Add to that mix, a story of understated power and the result is what one reviewer described as a masterpiece. I agree completely.The poignant story is told with some truly elegant and clever writing and I was gripped immediately. The story itself deals with issues which sadly will be forever relevant in society. I for one found some relevancies in my own life, perhaps not in the way the author intended but I think this shows how strong a book this actually is.There is an impending sense of doom throughout the story and I found the tension so well handled that although, occasionally, I had to put the book down I knew I had to pick it straight back up to find out what happened next. Again, this is a testament to the writer’s obvious skill.The school and the characters which inhabit it are superbly drawn; even the minor characters are well rounded and add to the bleak outlook for the main character, Grey. You get a real sense of the world closing in around him. Of the frustration and anxiety of his position and of a feeling of desperation and inevitably – hopelessness.I don’t read many books twice but this is one I will be reading again.Superb.