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The Ruby Slippers (2014)

by Keir Alexander(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

147210807 (ISBN13: 9781472108074)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Corsair

review 1: A book I don't particularly want to review. A book I'd much prefer to give you a copy of so that you too could discover the literary gem that is The Ruby Slippers. Our October 2014 Reader's Group read, of all of the many books we have read this is only the third one that I've wanted a copy of for our shelves.With a big (and I mean that in every sense of the word) cast of seemingly random characters who each have their own part to play in this debut novel,the story traverses between Latvia at the start of WWII to present day America. Not always a feat an author manages to pull off without losing the reader but Keir Alexander does so with much aplomb. Rosa's tale from a free-spirited young woman, dresser to Miss Judy Garland, possessor of THE ruby slippers to 'stinking bag l... moready' (largely revealed to us bit by bit through notes she kept) though not perhaps as prominent as it might have been the linchpin on which the whole book hinges.Full of pathos and yet also moments of unbridled happiness. A modern parable that proves there really is no place like home, this has to be one of, if not my favourite read of the year so far.Copyright: Tracy Terry @ Pen and Paper.
review 2: Some books you have to read a little before you take the hook. The many hooks in the first chapter of The Ruby Slippers reel you in and before you know it, you are picking up your Kindle when you wake to pee at 3 am, reading another few pages of Alexander Keir's literary masterpiece. Why then only four stars? Like a marvellous painting that has been dulled down by clumsy varnish, the last handful of pages are an unnecessary garnish on an otherwise perfect meal. Kier is not an infant, and he should not try to write as if he is. Read it and love it, it is to be read and adored. Stop reading at where you, the reader, feels it has ended, and you won't, like me wander round puzzled for three days wondering what on earth possessed this clearly gifted author to pen those last few pages. I loved it so much, I want to read it again. In fact, I think I will...... less

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