Review: Stunningly Good Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
I bought this book last night, started it and stayed up to finish it. This is stunningly good work, beautifully written and replete with meticulously researched historic detail. The heroine suffers from a painful and debilitating illness. She also has a gift enabling her to enter the minds of others. We watch as she struggles with both her illness and with the nature and appropriate uses of her gift.Years (and years) ago, when I was in college, a professor who was a well known literary critic, wrote a defense of mysteries in which he asserted that some of them reached the level of literature. I thought then and think now that despite the stir it caused, it was common sense. Some mysteries, paranormals and other niche books do reach this level. This one does. It's a stunning achievement. Get it for your teenager or get it for yourself. Don't wait.