Rate this book

The Boy Next Door (2009)

by Irene Sabatini(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

031604993X (ISBN13: 9780316049931)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: I found this book a bit hard to get into, but I did get into it, and am thinking about it a lot now that I'm done. At first I was a bit uneasy with the writing style, in part because of all the Zimbabwean slang, and also because the writing is very unsentimental. Fairly brutal things happen at time, but there's no wallowing, pages of internal struggle and monologue. There's so little of that that it feels now like some plot twists were unexplained or unresolved. Or maybe there were just some things that I didn't get. But I don't think that bothers me, now that I'm done. I'm left more with the story of the relationship and a real feeling about living in Zimbabwe during the '80s and '90s that I enjoyed most of all.
review 2: This is a beautifully told stor... morey about two people who become inseparable because of the turmoil around them. The setting is Bulawayo Zimbabwe, When Ian Mckenzie of Lindiwe Bishop's white neighbor is arrested for a horrible crime . He returns a year later the charges had been dropped. Ian is a boisterious brash boy full of charmLindiwe is only fifteen and she is fascinated with him . Her mother warns her stay away from him but she accepts a ride from him and something grows and becomes stronger each day. The world they live in wants to keep them apart Lindiwe has a secret which she keeps hidden until years later Ian discovers the secret and ensures that their lives will be entwined even as their country crumbles around them. less

Download links for: The Boy Next Door

Advertising