Review: A powerful and very modern murder mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
Very excited to find this gem of a book. I was enthralled by the main character, a very interesting and modern woman. Blue Ivy is a character with whom the reader can both relate and yet a type of character that remains fascinating at the same time. This mixture of the realistic and the adventurous is a difficult balance to find in other books, but one that comes easily to the author Parker Paige. I personally am a great fan of this kind of writing, that I cal "enlightened realism". It is enlightened in the sense that is goes beyond the surface realism to a deeper level of insight into our world, but always in touch with the present. Unfortunately too many other books undertake too many flights of fancy and in that sense they don't ring true anymore. This is not the case with The Ghost of Blue Ivy, it is always fresh and always brings something new to the attention of the reader. Suddenly the dreary vistas of the modern world take on new meaning and become fascinating. Like all the great writers, Parker Page takes the mundane and adds the sublime to it. A great book for our time.