I'm going to venture into a different type of blog post this time, and talk about a book I finished at the beginning of the month. I want to point out now that there will be absolutely no spoilers in this post! Reading was something I promised myself I would do more often at the start of the year, as it's been a total constant in my life and books are one of the luxuries I love and have always loved to spend money on.
Around October last year, I purchased 'After the Crash.' After the Crash is Frenchman Michel Bussi's first novel to be translated into English and it certainly did not disappoint.
The book is about a plane crash, in which the only survivor was a three month old baby. After the baby has been taken to hospital, two families claim she belongs to them. The richer of the two families hires a private investigator, who is given until the baby's eighteenth birthday to find out which family she belongs to and the story unfolds from there, following the investigator's eighteen year long journey across the world to try and uncover who the girl is.
The Good Book Guide said "Michel Bussi knows exactly how to keep the reader turning page after page" and could not be more accurate. This is one of the most compelling "I-need-to-know-what-happens" books I have ever read, and the story is incredibly well thought out and constructed throughout the book. The way Bussi makes all the pieces come together slowly throughout the book whilst introducing new pieces to the puzzle is truly amazing and keeps the reader hooked with every word.
The story is fairly complex, but is written in a way that is so easy to keep up with and follow, unlike some mystery novels that you can't ever get your head around. I felt that even if I didn't pick the book up for a few weeks, I still remembered the details of where I left off last.
The characters in the book are also incredibly well developed, and you feel a real attachment to them, and the underlying theme of not knowing who you really are is one that I could feel myself identifying with (although obviously not quite to the same extent!).
This book will shock, entertain, upset, and intrigue you with every page you turn, and if you are a lover of great mystery, you should definitely go and pick this up!
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