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A review by lisagray68
Touch by Alexi Zentner
4.0
What beautiful, evocative writing we have here from this brand new author. At first, it seems like another in the "genre" of a fictional looking back on your life type book. And it is -- a recollection of boyhood and family history in a cold Canadian mining town. Beautiful, lyrical language.
There's another aspect here too -- superstition, creatures from the woods, sightings of strange mythical creatures. This isn't as much my cup of tea, but it's brilliantly handled by the author, never really getting into the discussion of whether or not these things are actually real or not....or just superstition from a people clear-cutting the forest. Series of events that are unexplainable are explained by the townspeople through these myths, but you as the reader don't necessarily have to buy into it as truth. Very well done, and not overdone.
I must say, I look forward to more by this new author. He has a way with words that is just glorious.
There's another aspect here too -- superstition, creatures from the woods, sightings of strange mythical creatures. This isn't as much my cup of tea, but it's brilliantly handled by the author, never really getting into the discussion of whether or not these things are actually real or not....or just superstition from a people clear-cutting the forest. Series of events that are unexplainable are explained by the townspeople through these myths, but you as the reader don't necessarily have to buy into it as truth. Very well done, and not overdone.
I must say, I look forward to more by this new author. He has a way with words that is just glorious.