Transgressions

Rating:
Summary: Garbage
Review: This book is crap. I initially thought the book must have been written by a man as there is NO WAY the protagonist (or any woman for that matter) would react to a rapist in this way. Sorry Sarah, but if this is the best you can do, I certainly won't be reading any more of your work.

Rating:
Summary: not really sold on this one
Review: This book starts off very intriguing. Book translator Lizzie starts to notice CD's missing in her house. She thinks nothing of it as her ex boyfriend has a key to the house still. However, once he returns the key and the stereo continues to turn itself on and off and dishes move from the cupboards to the table, she begins to wonder if it's more of a poltergeist problem.

Until the night she wakes up and hears another person breathing in her bedroom.....

The story Lizzie is translating throughout the book is cheap, nasty and degrading, but I found it necessary as an explanation for Lizzie's behaviour. Despite the necessity, I still found the transcript quite boring, and it was only in retrospect that I began to believe Lizzie's emotions at the end of the story. "Mapping the Edge" is a much better book from this author.

Rating:
Summary: AN ENJOYABLE PIECE OF REAL LITERATURE
Review: When I bought BIRTH MARKS, by Sarah Dunant, I thought I have read the best detective book of the world. I haven't read all the detective books of the world, but I know that I really read one of the best ones ever written. After loving so much this book, I couldn't resist but pick another piece of the same writer. And, as she showed me once, Sarah is just one of these authors whose books you're never tired of (although she doesn't respond to your letters if you write her. No problem: one day she'll ask for MY autographs and I won't give any to her! Nobody is perfect. Who cares...) :)

But, much different from the book mentioned, we're not talking about a detective book here. TRANSGRESSIONS is much more than that. It has power, a good plot and, the most interesting of all: it's well written because the writer has criated her own style. She knows exactly how to keep the reader on the edge the whole book, without start to seem dizzy. It's not the kind of summer reading because that's not "just one more novel". It's a triumph.

Marco Aurelio