Friday Recommends #6

Friday has rolled around yet again, and that means it's time for another Friday Recommends!
I have tried to choose something a little different for this week's recommendation to the books that I've chosen before, and I think I've chosen the perfect one.


blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
Waterstone's synopsis:
'Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child; timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueeyed boy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a webjournal called "Badguysrock", this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the internet.

This novel is absolutely breathtaking! An up-to-date, modernized epistolary novel, this gives the
story a unique style that allows for the anti-hero's deceptive and creative traits to be fully recognized.
Just 150 pages from the end of the novel (without trying to give anything away), comes a chilling realisation that even as the reader we have been entirely deceived by the narrator, and that just as we feel we're finally getting to know him, it turns out that we don't know much about him at all.
A compelling and thrilling novel that will keep you on your toes throughout, blueeyedboy will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat and holding your breath. Definitely not a straight-forward read, but certainly a highly recommended read.

Have you read blueeyedboy? What did you think of it? Let me know in the comments!