Have I read this before: Nope. It’s one of the ones I just added to my list, actually.

Review: PUNCH ME IN THE FACE this book had so much potential and then dumped it down the toilet after Part One. Part One gets you all set up for this fantastic story of a wrongly-accused Robbie standing trial and trying to prove his innocence and you’re like YEAH LET’S GO but then suddenly you’re in WWII with Robbie and you’re like WHERE THE FUCK DID THE GOOD PART GO and then Briony is remorseful and everyone is angry and you’re like WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUT??

Seriously. Part One was so promising as the start of a very interesting and heartbreaking story. Then it just tanked.
(For me at least.)

Favorite Part: I loved how detailed Briony’s love of writing was detailed at the beginning. “It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thought sand feelings from her mind to her reader’s. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”

I also liked the way the supposed “incident” was described through Briony’s eyes:

“The word: she tried to prevent it sounding in her thoughts, and yet it danced through them obscenely…naturally, she had never heard the word spoken, or seen it in print, or come across it in asterisks. No one in her presence had ever referred to the word’s existence, and what was more, no one, not even her mother, had ever referred to the existence of that part of her to which – Briony was certain – the word referred. She had no doubt that that was what it was.”

Rating: 5/10