I finished Neverworld Wake and enjoyed it very much. Marisha Pessl has a wonderfully dark and twisted mind (for fiction, not sure about her personal life, but she seems normal on the videos) and created a satisfying creepiness in this YA story.
It's had mixed reviews, but I thought it was an good story and well-told. As noted elsewhere, time travel is fraught with problems, and if most of the fiction about it is to believed, it's about as reliable as normal travel.
It was in the same vein as Carlos Ruiz Zafon's YA stories, which I heartily recommend. (Marina, The Prince of Mist, The Midnight Palace, &c.)
I am now reading Andrew Martin's Soot, an 18th century mystery set in York.
Andrew Martin is one of those writers who seems to be able to write about anything, fiction or non-fiction. I liked his The Yellow Diamond (a novel), and his fascinating Night Trains (non-fiction)that relates the history of European sleeper services, and follows him on some of the last journeys still possible.
On an unrelated subject, thank you to those who have already bought Portland Place, a novel from Jane Austen's lost years. It was published on a Friday, and a colleague showed up to a meeting Monday morning with a copy for me to sign.
It's had mixed reviews, but I thought it was an good story and well-told. As noted elsewhere, time travel is fraught with problems, and if most of the fiction about it is to believed, it's about as reliable as normal travel.
It was in the same vein as Carlos Ruiz Zafon's YA stories, which I heartily recommend. (Marina, The Prince of Mist, The Midnight Palace, &c.)
I am now reading Andrew Martin's Soot, an 18th century mystery set in York.
Andrew Martin is one of those writers who seems to be able to write about anything, fiction or non-fiction. I liked his The Yellow Diamond (a novel), and his fascinating Night Trains (non-fiction)that relates the history of European sleeper services, and follows him on some of the last journeys still possible.
On an unrelated subject, thank you to those who have already bought Portland Place, a novel from Jane Austen's lost years. It was published on a Friday, and a colleague showed up to a meeting Monday morning with a copy for me to sign.
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