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A review by books__brews_and_booze
The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith
5.0
I daresay Dominic Smith is one of those writers of whom I want to read everything by. His use of language and turns of phrase are so beautiful. For example:
“Sabine often thought that she had been preparing for exile her whole life. For years she imagined the endless white days in a stone cottage along the Brittany coast, saw herself as an old woman eating solitary meals, moving from room to room
In her robe, a dog-eared novel by the bathtub.
Her eventual banishment, whenever she’d conjured it, was listless, sun-bleached, and aloof. But after five years of living under an assumed name, she also understood that exile was a kind of devotion.”
Five stars. So well done. I really wanted to know what happened to the characters and almost wanted to read faster so I could find out faster! :)
But I didn’t want to miss any of Smith’s use of language. I do wish more of Claude’s childhood and foraging with his father were included. I found that part interesting and wanted more of it.
I received this book as an Arc from a Goodreads Giveaway, with gratitude. This is my honest opinion.
“Sabine often thought that she had been preparing for exile her whole life. For years she imagined the endless white days in a stone cottage along the Brittany coast, saw herself as an old woman eating solitary meals, moving from room to room
In her robe, a dog-eared novel by the bathtub.
Her eventual banishment, whenever she’d conjured it, was listless, sun-bleached, and aloof. But after five years of living under an assumed name, she also understood that exile was a kind of devotion.”
Five stars. So well done. I really wanted to know what happened to the characters and almost wanted to read faster so I could find out faster! :)
But I didn’t want to miss any of Smith’s use of language. I do wish more of Claude’s childhood and foraging with his father were included. I found that part interesting and wanted more of it.
I received this book as an Arc from a Goodreads Giveaway, with gratitude. This is my honest opinion.