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Hello!

Today I publish a post about my #lobook initiative. Here, I share my experience about a book, beginning from the buying and finishing with my personal review. You can read more about lobook, consulting my first Lobook post here on Blurt.

AND NOW, LET'S GO!

This new episode takes a cue from the Donato Carrisi's novel, published with the title Into the Labyrinth (2017). The Italian version I read is L'uomo del labirinto, which has been used to create a movie dated back to 2019. In the image below, you can see a cover picture from which I removed a few parts, trying to avoid possible direct advertisings.

And below, some slices of the inner pages:

I bought the book several months ago, the paperback format. There are multiple editions with different prices, major for the hard-cover version and minor for the softcover one. The first price I found surfing the web here in Italy is €14,00, and reaches €19.00 for the hard-cover edition. In truth, the one I found is a paperback version with a lower cost: €5,00.

TURNING PAGES

A girl gets the attention of someone she never thought would be interested. But while she is waiting, a human disguised as a rabbit catches her and takes her away.

She is in a room, perhaps a hospital one. Something happened, but she doesn't know what. A person explains that she was found after a long, too long time. It can't be too much, she's only 14. But the point is just this: she was taken and held. Today, when she was found, she is no longer fourteen: that age was the one she was fifteen years before.

First point: this is a novel, thriller genre. Of those with cases of murders, kidnappings, or disappearances, peppered with introspective moments in the minds of criminals or presumed criminals, as well as with a thousand hypotheses about the reasons for their cruel work. Then let's go further: this book is part of a series written by Donato Carrisi and made up of four books, one of which has only characters in common and not functional components to the general plot. "Into the Labyrinth" is instead the middle book of this series, and it was written with the same classic style with which the author has accustomed us. Descriptive writing, but not to the extreme, and which often tries - with positive results - to brand the features of the story (and the characters) with captivating, original and very scenic phrases. From this point of view, however, I perceived a step backward: the style is the same, but it seems to me closer to the average of novels than the other texts read by him in the past. Positive vote, nonetheless.

The plot: the plot is nice, and also a classic and perfectly timed representation of the thriller genre. He fascinated me, and the author succeeds by mixing situations and points of view. Here, however, a negative side could arise for someone, because I realize that it is often difficult to understand who the points of view on the scenes belong to. Let me be clear, it is precisely this game that makes these books more original and frames them perfectly in the thriller; I'm just saying that some readers may find it difficult to follow, a bit like novels written with a thousand points of view or stuffed with an overflowing amount of flashbacks.

And I'll stop here, passing the ball to the vote and waiting to read the continuation.

Pages: 382

Genre: Thriller and crime

PERSONAL RATING

For my personal rating of the book, I usually use two votes: a GENERAL VOTE, based on a more objective approach to the text (where I consider for example the author's way of writing, the plot, any errors found, etc), and an INVOLVEMENT VOTE, based instead on the effect that reading had on me (if it attracted me, if it intrigued and tempted me, if it gave me useful information, etc.). Each of the two ratings is marked with a number of stars, from one to 5.

In the case of Into the Labyrinth, my personal response is 4 for the general vote and 3 for the involvement vote.

If this article has intrigued you, you can find info by searching on the web for news of the author, or contacting retailers in the books business sector. I greet you, and I hope my one is a useful opinion. I will periodically publish other posts of this kind. If you are interested in discovering new books – mainly novels – on the market, you can continue following me on the #lobook tag.