Blue Eyed Boy

There isn't a well-known label one can attach to this story - it's a puzzle, modern in its use of current technology, a precautionary tale maybe in the use of that technology, a thriller in that murders appear to occur. I urge you to read the inside cover blurb, and take note of chapter heading detail - it will make reading this book somewhat easier.

The story is told by a sad, middle aged man through postings to those who join in on his website badguysrock, and details events in his life. Later one of those contributors to the website also takes the narrator role. That it is set in a small northern town appears to bear no relevance to the plot except that it is a depicted as a closed community where everyone knows everyone else and gossip and petty intrigue are rife The synaesthesia is a diversion, maybe to explain his inability to just leave - and the central question for the reader is what is fiction and what is fact.

It seems to me that this book is slightly self-indulgent on the part of the author, she has obviously enjoyed writing a very complicated, dark novel, and one has to applaud her skill, interweaving characters, plots and motives, fact and fiction. But is it interesting, fulfilling, enlightening which is what I look for in a book ? Was it worth a few hours of my life ? I didn't think so, if I didn't have to review it I would have abandoned ship half way through. As my mother would have said - too clever by half!