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I seem to be one of the very few who has not rated this book highly! I'm afraid that I can't give it 3 stars as I can't say that I liked it. There were too many flaws and irritations. The premise is that Alex, a successful theatre producer in London, flees back to her university town of Edinburgh after a tragic incident kills her fiancé Luke. The story is then woven around the aftermath of the killing; why is Alex apparently spying on someone and why is one of her pupils stalking her? The basic
First of all, I am not entirely sure myself why this particular novel captured my imagination the way it did – but it really really did.The premise or rather construction of the story is not entirely new, but the way Natalie Haynes tells us the tale is imaginative, captivating and utterly engaging . We start the book knowing that a tragedy has occurred but not the details nor the specific players – as things unfold using diary entries, real time action and past flashbacks, it is compelling stuff...
Loved this book. Cleverly written, in sharp and fierce prose, this is an addictive read. Loved it.
(Review originally published on my blog, March 2014) Alex Morris is a successful theatre director at the age of twenty-six and has a pretty perfect life. She lives in London with her adoring fiancé Luke, an even more successful lawyer, and is not only blissfully happy, but thankful for her happiness and aware of how lucky she is. All of this changes abruptly when Luke dies suddenly, and, mired in grief, Alex returns to Edinburgh - where she went to university - and is taken under the wing of Rob...
We’re all responsible for our actions, and that includes me. In retrospect, I did everything wrong, almost from the moment I arrived in Edinburgh. I was weak, thoughtless and self-centred. I believed I was helping them, or at least I persuaded myself that I was. But the undeniable truth is that if I had made even the slightest effort to look outwards at these children, instead of inwards, I could have changed everything that happened. No-one was destined to die at this point.Wow. Now, this book
Reasons to buy:1. Only $2.992. Set in Scotland3. Dark academia4. Delinquency
Published with an endorsement on the cover from S J Watson, The Amber Fury is being billed as a 'thriller' and a 'page-turner'. This seems to me to be an example of what happens when the marketing department is allowed too much influence in a book's categorisation. Yes, there is murder here - two murders in fact - but Natalie Haynes' fictional debut is really a novel of ideas.Alex, a promising young theatre director, whose boyfriend was killed while intervening to protect a woman in a street bra...
Thanks to http://www.lovereading.co.uk/ for the review copy of this book.......Alex Morris has escaped to Edinburgh in order to forget her past. She finds herself helping a group of troubled teens who, for varied reasons, have been kicked out of mainstream schools. Through her teaching of Greek Tragedies and her interest in these forgotten children, she inspires them to look at life from a different perspective. When her past seeps into her present, things get out of control and Alex is obliviou...
My goodness, I've seen some harsh reviews out there for this novel. Some say that it's far too predictable. I'd say that it appears to be so predictable because the who-does-it question isn't really so much the point of the novel. Granted, I recognized the identity of the Fury so early on - and you will, too, I assure you - that I thought there would be some sort of twist in that identification, but there wasn't. So when I saw these criticisms, they gave me pause to consider and I don't think th...
This book was intensely disappointing (two stars is generous), probably because the description makes it sound so gripping. Unfortunately, the Greek tragedies which should be the bedrock of the story are so entirely incidental that even the title feels misleading. Instead of using the mythology to drive or even enrich the story, Haynes seems content to let her narrator summarize two or three plays in a manner so painfully reductive that it's as insulting to the reader as it is to Alex Morris's c...
Alex has lost her fiance to a brutal killing. So when her friend Robert offers her a job in a new town away from the pain she is having living in London she takes the job. She starts working in Edinburgh in a school of troubled teenagers. The one class that stands out for her is her harder one. Five teenagers she sets out to make a difference too.In the beginning the book reminded me quite a bit of the movie "Dangerous Minds". That's really not a bad thing since I enjoyed that movie. She gets...
