I love this book. I LOVE THIS BOOK.
Yep, this is going to be one of those
reviews. I’ve been intrigued by Station Eleven
ever since all the buzz about it began, to the point that I wanted to read it
so badly I almost broke that book-buying ban in January. I didn’t, I was very
well-behaved and I bought it in February instead. I haven’t read it yet though,
because you know, TOO MANY BOOKS and so Station Eleven is
sitting pretty on my TBR and whispering to me about how between it’s pages lies
a world of apocalypse and Shakespeare and making me want to read it so badly
and I am getting waaaaay off the point here, because that’s a thing I do,
apparently. What I am trying to say is that my wanting to read Station Eleven means that Emily St. John Mandel has been
well and truly on my radar for a while and after reading Last Night
in Montreal over the weekend she’s well and truly going to stay
there.
Last Night in Montreal was Emily’s
debut novel, it was published for the first time in the UK this month and
I was lucky enough to receive a copy from the publisher for review. My review,
in a nutshell, is that I loved this book.
You know I’ve got more to say than that though: all the
words, I like to use them. So, sit down, pour a glass of wine (as long as
you’re over 18, encouraging underage drinking is totally not my thing) and let
me talk at you about Last Night in Montreal
Last Night in Montreal is
something different, which I am always going to be all over. I keep reading
about how there’s only so many different stories out there and so when I find
somebody who tells one of those stories in a new and unique way I kind of want
to yell about it. That’s what I’m doing right now okay, I’m yelling at you to
read this book, dammit. The writing is so masterful and so clever,
and the way it’s structured, the way it unfolds endlessly intriguing. I couldn’t
stop reading, I couldn’t stop reading and I couldn’t stop feeling.
And then there’s the whole language parallel, all the stuff about lost
languages and forgotten languages and dead languages was properly fascinating
and so neatly entwined with the story that it makes me want to fist pump. I love that stuff.
And I know, that's totally a gratuitous picture of Roger Federer which I have totally included because of the fist pump but whatever. Does one really need a reason to share a picture of that tennis playing face? I think not. The point is, I just really think you probably ought to read this book.
Okay? Okay.
