Title: a good book on a bad story
Review: I shall not discuss Ms Lynn's writing skills: one page melts into the other and her style is always smooth, delicate, sober; her phrasing deceivingly simple, sometimes even lyrical.It is a writing made of small touches, light shades, always convincing if not always moving.The problem here lies with the story: hard as I tried I could not get involved nor get to love her characters.We have here a love sick young artist, doomed by cancer to die early in a world where an intimidating science nearly always guarantees a healthy, long lasting life. This device, if a bit cerebral, could in itself be touching but in this case it left me cold.I wanted to feel for the main hero, his lost lover being another man should have helped me identifying, but I simply could not.It seems to me that Ms Lynn was absent minded while writing this story: while retaining her usual skill she was not and could not move.
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