Your Blue-eyed Boy

by Helen Dunmore | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140272178 Global Overview for this book
Registered by jules5 of Darlington, County Durham United Kingdom on 10/5/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by jules5 from Darlington, County Durham United Kingdom on Friday, October 5, 2018
Picked up from the little book exchange,Low Coniscliffe telephone box Darlington

Journal Entry 2 by jules5 at Darlington, County Durham United Kingdom on Monday, October 15, 2018
I loved the beginning of this book-the complexity of the characters, the building tension not just between Simone and her husband ( and she was sooo patient) but of the peril to come. It's just that it fell a bit flat towards the end-I kept thinking 'what is she playing at here' and then it happened and it was predictable and unbelievable at the same time, almost as if the author had just given up and just threw it out there. But I've given it an 8 as its still a really interesting book

Journal Entry 3 by jules5 at Exchange/Trade, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (10/30/2018 UTC) at Exchange/Trade, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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More chiller than thriller..

Journal Entry 4 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, December 16, 2018
Taken from Flutterbie9's Random BookBox

Journal Entry 5 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, September 19, 2019
So the blurb about this book is as follows: "Simone is 38, a district judge whose husband Donald is on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown. Whilst she is at court, passing judgement on the lives of others, Donald stays at home and looks after their two young sons. One morning a letter arrives; someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her and Simone's private history is about to collide with her public world."

I was pretty much hooked from the off. The writing was beautifully evocative, the desolate coast & bleak beauty of the area Simone had bought her family to & her love for children was so descriptive.
The story also goes back 20 years, to the years before Simone's marriage when she spent a summer in the US & first meets Michael. Again the prose was so effective, even when describing cooking a simple outdoor meal you can almost smell the food & feel the breeze on your skin.
But throughout this a sense of unease was prickling at me, aware that something was going to happen that would have knock on effects 20 years down the line...... & was I reading more than there was into the relationships between the young Simone & the two friends?

Well it wasn't hard to guess as to what road this story was going to go down, though to be fair things didn't go quite as I thought they would. Sadly once the older Simone had met with her blackmailer the tension I'd felt building up just seemed to dissipate, with the characters acting rather unconvincingly to my mind, and it petering out to a rather mediocre ending.

A good read - even if I was disappointed with the final chapters - & it can't but make you wonder if something..or someone...in your dim & distant past will come back to haunt you one day......

Journal Entry 6 by wingPlum-crazywing at Leeds Meet @ City Museum Café in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, September 19, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (9/21/2019 UTC) at Leeds Meet @ City Museum Café in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Taking to the Leeds Meet-Up. If it's not picked up by another BookCrosser it will be added to the LFL in the café

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Journal Entry 7 by wingReetPetitewing at Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Sunday, September 22, 2019
Picked up at Leeds meet up

Journal Entry 8 by wingReetPetitewing at Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Thanks. Good read.

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