Review: THE DOUBLE

THE DOUBLE by Alison Brodie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars


So The Double

Okay, when you read a book and you get everything from one single POV, usually from the heroine you're like 'oh wow, that's nice; then there's book 2 where you get the guy's POV and we all go like: "Love it, now i have the whole thing together", right?
So here we have like 4 POV's if I'm not mistaken. So good that you will not only have the whole picture together, but at some point you'll be feeling like if you were playing



so you can follow the lead of each one of the characters.

so The place?

Let's see we have: The States, of course then Ireland, and Transnitria & Moldova close to Ukraine, And they do exist

see?

But making it shorter, everything happens here:



So Characters?

we have SONITA LA CRUZ
A brazilian rock diva living in the States that is coming down in her repertoir and is looking for a change by the hand of her billonaire and superficial boyfriend, but she also was a philantropist which led to some heavy discussions among them:

She wanted too put bread in hungry mouths, he wanted to wine and dined the rich

So what was the best thing she could do?


yep! she disappeared!

CARLOS
He's a crazy guy that believes that rock is bad and apparently Sonita here is the evil itself, so he goes into I'm-the-avenger-of-God-mode so


yep!

now, BETH
She's an abnegated mother and wife, actually she's an abnegated wife, 'cause her daughter are already grown ups and out of the house, while she goes like a submissive mouse, letting her hubby do whatever the f*ck he wants.


so she's also studying for being a certificate nurse and also trying to have a great time with her friends, while at the same time is harboring a huge crush on the spanish guy:


So when it's time for this guy to go back to his country they do a costume party, wellsort of amd she goes as diva rock star of course.

ALEKSANDER SHTCHERBATSKY or something like that XD
He's a taugh ukrainian , that has been on jail, and now works capitaining different ships to stay away from problems, but when he come home to see his family , he comes with the surprise that the politic situation of his country is taking the lives of the kids in danger, as physical as their health, so he would do everything in his power to stop it.

So ...what? were you expecting me to tell you what will happen next?! HA! NOT a chance! READ THE BOOK
Let's just say that the lives of all these character mix together in one point where, then they'll al have to give the best of themselves, being:





even though, in the middle of it comes enlightment for one of our characters:

+

so they go like:


and everything happens on a...


So, we have a confussion of identities, a murderer, a mafia strike, an invasion, a barriere of defense from part of the god ones, and new self-discovering for everyone else.




So if you're looking something that would give you a little history lesson , without getting boring, a romance and the sea journey of your life where you'll be able to have every little whim you can imagine ...then come and get this one!



XD
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Okay! I know this is not one of my regular readings here, but you know what?! I liked it and I pretty much enjoyed it a lot

The story is told from different POV's ( different like more than 2, yeah!!), add to it, that it also happen in more than one location and, of course, it also has more than just one language...(which BTW I looooved it,XD) even though I know nothing of ukrainian XP

Now the story is like a thread that goes slowly twisting more and more every single time you keep reading. So at first you're like : oh, ok that's good, yeah, that's interesting but also ...what does any of that has any to do with any of the other...until suddenly KABOON! yep! ohhhhhhhhhhhhh..that's where you were heading to. XD

It was a really nice reading, perfect for a rainy or lazy day where you feel like you wanna do absolutely nothing physcally, but you totally won't mind that you do everything mentally.

So we have drama, suspense, a bit of thriller and bathe in comedy and a bit of romance as well...all in the name of a very, very GOOD CAUSE.

I won't say more further, 'cause this is just a tiny bit...my full review is already in process.

But for everyone that would like to read something new and out of their regular book genders... this is a great option

Full rev coming

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