Review: Best book I've read so far this year
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2010
This book is a deserving winner of the prestigious Giller prize in 2008.  I've been wanting to read it for some time, but wanted to read Boyden's first book "Three Day Road" first.  As good as that book was, this one is even better.  But it was good to read Three Day Road first as it is a precursor to this one and helped me understand the characters a bit more.  Like Three Day Road, this book is so difficult to read in some ways because you keep waiting for the terrible, cataclysmic thing to happen.  And even though you know it's going to happen, it doesn't make it any less terrible when it does.  This book is also similar to Three Day Road as it told from the viewpoints of two different people.  Both Will and his young niece Annie have terrible stories to tell and each heals through the sharing of them.  I highly recommend this book, but I would suggest that you read Three Day Road first.  You will feel richer from the experience of enjoying superlative story telling.  Both books will take you up and out of your everyday life and into a magical world that seems so very real while you are there reading about it.