by Christian Moerk
Fiona Walsh thought her family's secrets would follow her to her grave, but when her diary is found by a young postman, Niall, the truth about her untimely demise--and that of her sister and aunt--begins to see the light of day. It's the most tragic love story he's ever heard. Niall soon becomes env...
Slow read...
This is one my favorites of the year. The story is chilling and gothic. Loved the setting and the characters. Excellent!
Hmmmmm, I am trying to remember to remember why I gave this book 3 stars..it should be more like 2.5 stars. Very dry and slow in its' presentation. I wasn't that impressed with the characters either.
Pros: A dark tale told successfully from a feminine point of view by a male author. It is a story within a story within a story. The perspective does change, but the author makes transitions easy to follow and does it seamlessly without creating any disjointed jolt in time. It held my interest al...
Beginning with the death of three of the main characters this book grabs you from the get go. The reader travels down a winding path with Niall - dusgruntled postal worker, frustrated comic book artist and somewhat unwilling amateur slueth - to discover why these deaths occurred. Jim is a "travellin...
I received the book as an advanced reader copy through Library Thing and had requested it because it looked like something I would enjoy.The book begins when it is discovered that a woman has been murdered in her home in the town of Malahide, but the mystery thickens as her two emaciated nieces are ...
Danish author Christian Moerk has done something that I, honestly, would have wagered against: created a brilliant modern gothic novel that combines the best of suspense and the ancient Irish art of the seanchai, or storyteller.With his semi-epistolary novel "Darling Jim," Moerk introduces us to Jim...
i'm SO bleary-eyed this morning from obsessively finishing darling jim last night at 12 a.m. i was lucky enough to score a copy from Library Thing Early Reviewers program. i love books like this!! i thought it was a fabulous read. mr. moerk created such terrific images, and the story was shroude...
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