Moonstone : The Boy Who Never Was

from obtusata

This is a very interesting and hard to put down short book.

from starbox

"Reykjavik has, for the first time, assumed a form that reflects his inner life", 27 Mar. 2017 This review is from: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was (Hardcover) Reykjavik 1918: the last days of the Great War but more pressing for the locals is the violent outbreak of Spanish flu. Against this bac...

from bostonbibliophile

I can't really say I "enjoyed" this book but I appreciate it. It's about a young gay teen in WW1-era Iceland and how he survives through his love of the movies. It's surrealistic and at times hard to follow; the prose is lovely and poetic. The sexual content especially at the very beginning is qu...

from alanteder

This actually lives up to the seemingly improbable genre labelled in the blurb as "the mind-bending miniature historical epic" and although the concluding deus ex machina effect and the sudden shift into magic realism might be disconcerting to many, it was what bumped it into [5] territory for me...

from alliepascal

A lot of this book's subtlety flew over my head my first read through; even then, it was totally absorbing. By the end I felt equally devastated and in awe. Wonderful, short, disjointed book.