kultura
the looking
glass
I have read many books, but ne-
ver came across one that I would
be shocked and impressed by at
the same time.
text:
Barbora Smolková 2.c
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ntil I found this one- Looking Glass
by Andrew Mayne (it´s a part two
to Andrew´s previous book called „
The Naturalist“.
The only
criticism
I have about
his books
is the fact
that it takes
me a long
time to read,
because it
completely
sucks me in.
The main character is an American scien-
tist Theo Cray. In the previous book Theo
helped - and eventually solved a huge
crime, which was the case of a murderer
who was crazy, but really smart and killed
many people. Because of him Theo inven-
ted a PC programme that helped working
out cases like this, because it was able to
see what people wouldn´t have seen.
In this book Theo is helping (or solving -
since the police couldn´t have solved it for
20 years) a case of a desperate father,
whose son named Christian has gone
missing for 20 years. He was lastly seen
leaving his school and suddenly- all that
was left from him was his bike. Theo can
hear a story, that many people believe
isn´t true. It is a story of a „Toy man“
who rides around the town in a white
van giving little boys toys, and when he
meets a certain boy for the second or
third time, he picks him up and takes him
home, telling the boy that this place where
he´s going to take him is a Toy land.
However, Theo doesn´t find a Toy land, he
finds an old house where an old lady with
her dog keeps finding bones at her backy-
ard... The police think that the lady is just
old and therefore sees unreal things...
Will Theo find the Toy man? Will he find
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Christian ? I guess you will have to find
out yourself. All I am going to say is just
the fact - this book is mysterious, full of
twists and turns and when you read one
chapter, you immediately have to start
the next one, because it´s so tempting.
It never leaves you bored. Andrew Mayne
is honestly the best writer I have come
across so far. The only criticism I have
about his books is the fact that it takes me
a long time to read , because it complete-
ly sucks me in - to the point that I have to
keep reading. So be aware of that!l