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An Addictive Read

03/05/08

03:25:13 pm, 245 words, 575 views

Categories: Novels

An Addictive Read

When I won a copy of Magdalena Ball's Sleep Before Evening as the prize for coming runner up in the writelink wet, wet, wet flash fiction contest, I was really worried I might not like it. The novel was written by not only a fellow writelinker but someone who had judged my own writing so highly. What would I say if I disliked it but was asked what I thought? As it turns out, I needn't have fussed, as the novel is addictive in more than just its subject matter.

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Sleep Before Evening by Magdalena Ball, pp 296, BeWrite Books

My free time is very hard to come by and therefore very precious, so I tend to read novels in one of two ways. If I don't like it, I stop after about 30 minutes and don't touch it again. If I like it, I can't stop until I've finished. Sleep Before Evening falls into the latter category for me.

It is a moving, gripping and gritty story of many different kinds of love, loss and addiction. The sordid world of heroin addiction is set against a background of chess, poetry, music and art to create a strong storyline. But the use of language and imagery in this novel are also fantastic. Definitely, a novel to be enjoyed as a reader and as a writer.

Reviewed by Sarah James, website at http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk and blogging at http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/sarah_james .

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