Review: The Heart’s Invisible Furies
John Boyne
Hogarth
2017
All the fabulous reviews already out there combined with the
endorsements on the back cover had my hopes set really high for this book. I picked it up and began reading. Only problem it wasn’t long before I realized
this book was not for me. The characters
didn’t interest me, and in fact I found them boring. A clueless kid in an odd adoptive home meets
a precocious seven-year-old kid and they compare their anatomical
attributes. OK, kids do that. I’ll read on and sure enough as time goes on
the book became more saturated with other exploits of equal interest. Still I give it one more try and now
everyone, everywhere converses only and ever in terms of sexual practices. I’m done with the book at that point. One last look and I read the last few
pages. A shame the rest of the book wasn’t
written as well as those few pages. I
could see a famous British actress playing the part of the mother.
I was hoping for more than this book delivered. I suppose I missed the whole point of the
author’s intent since plenty of others found it to be a much better read than I
did.
I received this book from the publisher in exchange for a
review.
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