Please join me over at Rose City Reader for today’s edition of Book Beginnings. The book that my first line comes from is “The House I Loved” by Tatiana De Rosnay:
"My beloved,
I can hear them coming up our street. It is a strange, ominous rumble."
Our local library had just gotten this book and it is the first of this author’s that I have read. The cover is beautiful and really caught my eye. The story is unlike anything I have read before since it is told in first person perspective with the main character writing letters to her deceased husband before their Paris neighborhood is destroyed to make way for a more modern city. I don’t want to give too much away, but I was stunned at the way the author chose to end the story. It wasn’t bad, but it definitely could have been more upbeat.
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Oh, now I’m intrigued…thanks for sharing!
Here’s MY FRIDAY MEMES POST
Since you mentioned the surprising ending, I definitely HAVE to read this book. I’m intrigued.
Oh! I really hate it when the end leaves me sad and this sounds like maybe it did. Thanks for Sharing.
That. Was. Amazing. It sounds like whoever is writing the letter (a girl, I assume?) is in an intense situation. Great way to start a book. The synopsis sounds very intriguing.
Oh! The cover WAS beautiful. It almost looks like the couple is holding hands, but they’re not. Pretty awesome.
So, did you enjoy the ending?
My Book Beginning: http://thereadingkorner.blogspot.com/2012/11/against-beginning.html
The ending was shocking and dramatic, but I wish it had ended differently. I almost felt like I had had the wind knocked out of me when I finished it. Thanks for stopping by!
I think all her books deal with tough family drama’s. Not easy to read, but compelling none the less.