Title: Different from Wicked, equally absorbing
Product review: In his two adult books, Macquire seems to take one premise and then explore them in character studies. In Wicked, that led him all over the place in terms of characters, plot, and pacing. In Confessions, he looks at the concept of "of what use is beauty?" and spins a much more focused and tightly drawn narrative than we saw in Wicked. One stylistic approach he used was the tense of the story, it does take getting used to. Instead of saying something like "Iris went to the window and looked out onto the town square", he says "Iris goes to the window, looks out at the town square". I can't recall another book written this way. It might put off people from the thematic elements of the story.Once again, we see how all things are relative depending on the perspective of the person(s) involved.
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