Lose Yourself In The Breakout Sensation Of The Year Shortlisted For Waterstones Book Of The Year 2019 'brilliant' Joanna Cannon 'spellbinding' Guardian 'magic' Erin Kelly 'immersive' Sunday Times 'gorgeous' Stella Duffy 'astounding' Anna Mazzola Emmett Farmer Is A Binder's Apprentice. His Job Is To Hand-craft Beautiful Books And, Within Each, To Capture Something Unique And Extraordinary: A Memory. If You Have Something You Want To Forget, Or A Secret To Hide, He Can Bind It - And You Will Never Have To Remember The Pain It Caused. In A Vault Under His Mentor's Workshop, Row Upon Row Of Books - And Secrets - Are Meticulously Stored And Recorded. Then One Day Emmett Makes An Astonishing Discovery: One Of The Volumes Has His Name On It.
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Lose Yourself In The Breakout Sensation Of The Year Shortlisted For Waterstones Book Of The Year 2019 'brilliant' Joanna Cannon 'spellbinding' Guardian 'magic' Erin Kelly 'immersive' Sunday Times 'gorgeous' Stella Duffy 'astounding' Anna Mazzola Emmett Farmer Is A Binder's Apprentice. His Job Is To Hand-craft Beautiful Books And, Within Each, To Capture Something Unique And Extraordinary: A Memory. If You Have Something You Want To Forget, Or A Secret To Hide, He Can Bind It - And You Will Never Have To Remember The Pain It Caused. In A Vault Under His Mentor's Workshop, Row Upon Row Of Books - And Secrets - Are Meticulously Stored And Recorded. Then One Day Emmett Makes An Astonishing Discovery: One Of The Volumes Has His Name On It.
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Reviewed by HelenI loved the concept of this book — seriously, the idea had me hooked. And honestly? It wasn’t bad at all. It was good. Just…not more than that. Not a whole lot actually happened, but to be fair, this is historical fantasy — so that kind of slow pace was expected, and I didn’t really mind it. What did throw me off, though, was the fact that the book was split into three completely different sections. Like… okay, I get it, it made sense plot-wise, and Part 2 was genuinely great! But the other two? Meh. Just kinda there. I also had a super clunky start — I spent a good chunk of the beginning just trying to figure out what the book was even about beyond the whole “binding memories into books” thing. And to be honest, the characters didn’t really grab me. The writing felt pretty distant, so I never formed a strong emotional connection with any of them. But hey — overall, it was still a solid read. Let’s be real: tragic queer love stories will always have me in a chokehold.
Reviewed by isabel3,5 stars