Of Mice and Maltesers Two - PistachioLemon's book

[PistachioLemon]

I'm more than a little nervous about the feedback on the book - but don't hold back - I'm really interested to hear what you think.

well, to be honest i have struggled with this book. i am in two minds because i did and i didnt enjoy it, the location was very exotic and well described.

altogether i was a little disappointed, PL have you read any others by the author?

sorry this wasn't for me.

PL, thank you, I really liked this book. I love reading novels set in Africa (my work takes me there a bit, or did before DS turned up!) and felt that the author skillfully established an atmosphere of time and place. The narrator was interesting - a bit spineless wasn't he?! I wanted to slap him around the face a lot! Even he couldn't really see the point of him and Ines but just couldn't let it go. I thought he was a really complex character, his utter detachment from everything (all the stuff about being 'un homme plume', that he could only neutrally observe everything).

If you haven't read it already, I would definitely recommend Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. It's set in Ethiopia during the war (and the present day); I read it last month and it blew me away, the best book I had read in a long time. It was one of those books that you ration out to yourself because you can't bear it to end!

Thanks PL!