On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness.
Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become – or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-John-Boyne/dp/0857529870
WHEN I WAS TWELVE years old, I was buried alive with the ground of a construction site (1).
(Doubleday, Hardback, 7 November 2024, 176, borrowed from Irvine Library)
This is actually the third book in the series so I’m reading out of order. I borrowed this from the library and someone else has reserved it and I can’t renew it so had to read it before book two, Earth which I’ll be reading next. This is a bit darker than Water. Freya is a very disturbed woman. The book contains flashbacks of dark events from the past which shaped the dangerous person she becomes. Terrible things happened to her but they don’t justify her actions and choices as an adult. I couldn’t sympathise with her at all. Like Water, so much happens in Fire’s scant pages. This is an unsettling but gripping read.
