This author certainly knows how to grab a reader’s attention. First, he teases by telling you how NOT to write a novel. Then he breaks his own rule to describe the chaotic nature of an island wind, using a literary description that makes an airstream sound like a deity from a Greek myth. You sense that the wind itself will become a kind of entity in this tale, one that must drive the sensitive and vulnerable mad.
The unknown narrator styles himself a playwright and has journals full of notes to prove it. It is he who will tell us this tale of love gone sour and the murder that resulted from it. It’s only a few teaser paragraphs that we are given but they snared my attention from the first line. This is a toothy little tease, an amuse bouche to the sumptuous mystery feast that awaits.
The unknown narrator styles himself a playwright and has journals full of notes to prove it. It is he who will tell us this tale of love gone sour and the murder that resulted from it. It’s only a few teaser paragraphs that we are given but they snared my attention from the first line. This is a toothy little tease, an amuse bouche to the sumptuous mystery feast that awaits.