LoveReading Says
Oh my word! I’m rather blown away by this novel, it and the characters within have taken up residence in my heart and soul. I’m writing my review in January and already know that The Book of Love is going to be one of my favourite novels of the year. By the way, on reading the synopsis the title appears to be rather unexpected, but enter the pages and understanding greets you. Three teenagers are resurrected from a place of death and given a task to complete by two magical beings if they want to remain in the land of the living. This sounds as though you will be entering a place of pure fantasy, and yet this is also one of the most real and grounded novels I’ve read. A hugely epic scope is contained inside this seaside town, other worlds lie within reach and strange beings gather. I fell in love with author Kelly Link’s writing when I explored the reinvented fairy stories within White Cat, Black Dog, she has the most extraordinary eloquent pen, and her words carry power. I joyfully fell inside this story and welcomed the emotions it contains. I felt an energy sweep over me as I read and on finishing wanted to immediately re-enter and explore. I’m in awe of the mind it would take to create these deeply rich and evocative imaginings, and so this Liz Pick of the Month also sits as a LoveReading Star Book. The Book of Love throws the known into glorious disarray as it offers a new world of possibilities, what a gorgeous novel this is, and it comes as highly recommended by our team.
Liz Robinson
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The Book of Love Synopsis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
"A dreamlike, profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be."-Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
"Imagine a ring of David Mitchell and Stephen King books dancing around a fire until something new, brave, and wonderful rose up from the flames."-Isaac Fitzgerald, Today
ONE OF VULTURE AND PUBLISHER WEEKLY'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Time, Town & Country, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, New York Post, Book Riot, Lit Hub
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love-from friendship to romance to abiding family ties-with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot.
Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are.
With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance-and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they've been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers.
But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. As Laura, Daniel, and Mo grapple with the pieces of the lives they left behind, and Laura's sister, Susannah, attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she fears, these mysterious others begin to arrive, engulfing their community in danger and chaos, and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert a looming disaster.
Welcome to Kelly Link's incomparable Lovesend, where you'll encounter love and loss, laughter and dread, magic and karaoke, and some really good pizza.
About This Edition
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9780593732243 |
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13th February 2024 |
| Author: |
Kelly Link |
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Random House an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
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Paperback |
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640 pages |
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