Scan barcode
A review by nglofile
There Is No Lovely End by Patty Templeton
4.0
Utterly original. Reading this book is like finding a hidden door behind a bookcase, carefully prying the stale boards away, crawling through, and discovering you have been transported to a fully-realized world bearing a misleading resemblance to a past you've pictured. However, you would be wrong. This is a entirely new and mesmerizing reality populated by characters (in both senses of the word) that appear before you -- first in shade and then in living, gritty, sarcastic color.
The language is so rich that I found myself intentionally slowing down my reading so as not to miss a nuance of experience. One need only take in the perfect title to have a hint of what treasures are to come. I wanted to savor the slang and the rhythms, and I could justifiably be accused of noting a few expressions in the hopes of adding them to my own daily conversation. We'll see how that works out.
There are twists of plot and persons that add to both intrigue and pace. Quite simply, Templeton is a spellcaster, and one I'd pay dearly to view at the Watchbird Theater.
The language is so rich that I found myself intentionally slowing down my reading so as not to miss a nuance of experience. One need only take in the perfect title to have a hint of what treasures are to come. I wanted to savor the slang and the rhythms, and I could justifiably be accused of noting a few expressions in the hopes of adding them to my own daily conversation. We'll see how that works out.
There are twists of plot and persons that add to both intrigue and pace. Quite simply, Templeton is a spellcaster, and one I'd pay dearly to view at the Watchbird Theater.