Metallic Love
£2.09
Sound of an author shooting their ealier creation stone dead.... - Well. That was pretty depressing. The Silver Metal Lover - the story this book ostensibly follows - was a lyrical, heartbreaking love story which ended on a note of hope. I have no idea what caused Ms Lee to decide so grimly to metaphorically shred the concepts and hope in the earlier book into tiny metaphorical pieces and then jump up and down on them in further metaphoric glee - but shred she did. It s pretty much ruined the earlier story for me, which I can only believe to have been the author s full intent. It s not badly written, and in fact the protagonist states at the start that you won t like her. It s determinedly miserable, systematically destroying all the wonder of the previous story. Avoid, if you have read The Silver Metal Lover and liked it. Sadly, the narrator is correct. I didn t like any part of it.
Susanne B - While this book was good enough in its own right and entertaining, it is most certainly the pale cousin of its fore-runner The Silver Metal Lover which was such a good book that you only have to read the reviews for that to see how many people loved it. These books are meant to be read one after the other and so you cannot help but conpair them. Where as The Silver Metal lover will move you deeply this one will only give you a nudge. The story has interesting points to make but sadly looses the original thread that ran so bright and strong through the first novel. Worth reading, but try to read it on its own merits and not on the merits of the first book.