Review: Addictive
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
I was hooked on this book after the first sentence in the prologue, 'Someone once told me that there's no such thing as a coincidence, only a synchronicity.' From that intriguing opening, we're plunged straight into the head and body of the protagonist -- who thinks quite a bit about almost everything -- and stay there, without the dizzying shifts into a dozen viewpoints in three paragraphs one sees so often in women's fiction. This is the author's third book and by the time I'd finished the second chapter (sometimes one doesn't realise quite how lucky one has been to stumble across a writer quite so in tune with one's own brain until a few moments have passed) I'd gone back to the well and purchased her previous novels to place into my personal queue of things to read. I haven't been at all sorry.This is an intelligent work of compassionate literary fiction, in my humble opinion, and not 'chick lit' by any means, although I suppose the market tends that way. It deals with divorce and love and loss, not necessarily in that order, and with a generous humanity that allows the characters to find their own way in life, make their own mistakes, recover from them, without once making anyone into a pantomime villain or cardboard heroine, as anyone who's actually gone through a divorce may sometimes be tempted to do.I highly recommend this book, for whatever that's worth.Lee-Anne