Well-researched page-turner
- Book: The Breath of Night
- Location: The Philippines
- Author:
The story follows Philip as he flies to the Philippines to uncover the life and supposed miracles of a missionary priest.
The writing is dense with local detail and colourful characters and the story is gripping without verging into the sensational.
As I read it, I had the sense that some dialogue and parts of the story didn’t ring true. The protagonist, Philip, felt poorly drawn and indistinct. This is where the skill of the writer really stood out. For although there is a twist in the story, watch out – the true revelation is not the superficial twist in the last chapter but the shadow of the unreliable narrator laid out in the afterword.
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