Well, finished 'Her Fearful Symmetry' and was blown away. Was a bit put out at the author's usage of crude language/situations in a couple of places---a tiny bit of swearing and a couple of spots where I thought the crassness of the topic should have been avoided, but all in all, the story was amazing. But for the rude parts, I'd put it on my favorites list for this year, but can't for that reason.Funny that she sort of got permission from the cemetery to write the book (see previous post here) and put Highgate Cemetery as the starting place of the action, but still she had to slip in the nonsense. Yeah, it could've been lots worse, but then again, it could have worked without the s*xual references. Less is more.
I recommend it with the disclaimer. Do a search online for images of the cemetery. Wow. The one I show above doesn't even scratch the surface.
(photo above available for download at photobucket)
