Not sure
what I really felt about this book.
Yes it was original, and I, personally,
have never read a book like it before, the concept of writing a book by using diary/blog
pages, emails, tweets, and Facebook posts was great.
It contains a lot of
really nice prose, and the storyline is good.
I really
like Alice Salmon. She had her faults, what heroine doesn't! She is the subject
of the book, the girl who died, mysteriously, on a snowy February night. Prof
Cooke is the protagonist. He’s the man who wants to gather all the information
he can about her, to find out what sort of on-line presence she left behind, to
see if he could make her dance again! Through this process we slowly come to
realise the truth about Alice’s death.
The story is
told through multiple viewpoints, Alice herself, the Prof, Alice’s boyfriend,
friends and family, and through multiple time frames. The switch from one
time frame to another is very cleverly done, and I was never unclear about where
I was in the story.
The characterisation is exceptional, I have a daughter the
same age as Alice, and the things she did/wrote about, remind me so much of my
daughter when she was younger, as well as now.
I think that
what really bothered me about the book was I didn’t like Prof Cooke, I found
him supercilious, and irritating. Some of the things he did, and wrote were truly
awful, and I had no sympathy with him whatsoever.
I found it
to be quite a sad book, but it was a book that I couldn’t stop reading. That
was my dilemma, I hated the protagonist, but I had to get to the end. That’s why I gave this book a 4* review. One
thing this book does make you do is think about your own on-line footprint, it's amazing what stuff is out there in cyberspace!
Would I recommend
this book, yes I would, it is a very clever, different read that grabs you in.
Available now:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-She-Left-Enhanced-Richmond-ebook-x/dp/B00RL1XES6/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1432629479&sr=1-2&keywords=what+she+left+behind
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