I’m not
exactly the right target reader for this novella. I have never loved teenage
stories, not even when I was a teenager. But I must recognise that this is a
text with a certain merit. It’s well written, it has got a very good prose. The
narrated story recalls vividly many more stories concerning young Americans:
the less than innocent games, the skirmishes, the best friend fallen for the
heroine but irremediably confined to the friend zone, the heroine who isn’t
interested in love in real life but lives in the books she reads. They are
well-known themes to which the author was able to give a personal touch. The
fact it causes in me the same sense of annoyance that I usually feel for this
kind of stories means that it works and that the fans of this genre will surely
love it.
Being
myself a fan of mystery and suspense, I surely preferred the final part of this
book, with the cliffhanger (one of my favourite narrative tools) which wants to
push the reader towards the first book in the saga.
The Shadow of Fate on Amazon.
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