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A review by claudia_is_reading
Death In The Spires by KJ Charles
5.0
OMFG! I LOVE THIS!
The story is fascinating, Jem's journey to find what really happened a decade ago is both, a fool's errand and a deep compulsion to understand why. He knows when his life stopped, when everything fell down but he needs to find out if anything of what he felt at that time was true. Did he really know his friends? Did they were their friends, at all?
It's a heartbreaking task that brings up past wounds and revives old fears. Everybody's lives seem to have stopped that night but all of them are willing to let the sleeping dogs lie and are not happy to find that Jem is determined to get to the core of it.
And yes, I had a suspect since Hugo showed up at Oxford although I was only 50% right. And in all honesty, I suspected him because I was not too fond of his attitude. His apparent cordiality and his offer of 'help' Jem smelled like a rotten fish, sorry
Throughout the book, I felt Jem's turmoil, his contradictory needs, his desperate need to understand the past and his fear of what the truth could do to them all.
The story is fascinating, Jem's journey to find what really happened a decade ago is both, a fool's errand and a deep compulsion to understand why. He knows when his life stopped, when everything fell down but he needs to find out if anything of what he felt at that time was true. Did he really know his friends? Did they were their friends, at all?
It's a heartbreaking task that brings up past wounds and revives old fears. Everybody's lives seem to have stopped that night but all of them are willing to let the sleeping dogs lie and are not happy to find that Jem is determined to get to the core of it.
Throughout the book, I felt Jem's turmoil, his contradictory needs, his desperate need to understand the past and his fear of what the truth could do to them all.
He couldn’t go on like this, loving people and suspecting them at once. A human mind couldn’t do that without breaking.
It's a brilliant historical mystery, a character-driven story in which nobody is perfect and everybody has a secret that could ruin them. This is a tale about love and friendship, about youth hopes ruined, about consequences.
This is a story with no exultant ending but a quiet one. Impregnated with sadness, yes, but also with hope for the future. And I loved it.