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The Blue Book (2011)

by A.L. Kennedy(Favorite Author)

2.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0224091409 (ISBN13: 9780224091404)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Jonathan Cape

review 1: I enjoyed The Blue Book. I thought Kennedy’s novel, Everything You Need was superior. In contrast, The Blue Book was just okay. I enjoyed the premise Kennedy offered with Beth meeting her old flame and fellow con artist on board a cruise ship when she is with her new lover. Kennedy’s creates great atmosphere in The Blue Book with the storm providing an unstable, interesting back-drop for the dysfunctional life. I liked the fact Beth and Arthur made a living as con artist. This provided an interesting context for events in The Blue Book. I found the structure confusing at time as Kennedy moves back and forth in time and in and out of first, second and third person. This complex structure doesn’t work as well as it could have. The ending shocked me. I wanted to like Th... moree Blue Book a lot more but it’s too much of a mishmash of things that work and things that didn’t work.
review 2: This is such a complex book I don't really know what to think. Everything that is said seems to have multiple meanings, even multiple sayers. The language is certainly beutiful, and the characters fuzzily likeable, passionate and very human. The story being a lot about loss, betrayal, disappointment, sadness and unearned comfort and trust, and the story line heaving and twisting like a high sea, it's not an easy read. Anyway, Kennedy will be on my look-for list from now. less

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