The Binding-Bridget Collins- Historical Fanasy
Emmett has been chosen to be the apprentice to the binder. He leaves home when he is
still recovering from an illness that has laid him up unable to work for a while. Once at his
new position he finds out more about binding and that it is not just books that get bound.
This is one of those reads that somehow captivates you form the start without really
knowing why- there is just that something about it that keeps the pages turning.
Emmett is a likeable young man albeit naive in the ways of he world and most certainly
of the world of binding that he has entered. Perhaps it is that unknown quality that we
want to know more about , that suspicion that all is not quite as it first appears that
keeps us there. There has been much publicity and talk about this book and I can see
why. even the cover is captivating and beautiful. A very clever plot- I won’t give
anything away other than to say ingenious! How stories are made and the “false”
ones are called novels. I saw Joanna Cannon (Three Things about Elsie/The Trouble
With Goats and Sheep said that” This is more of an experience than a book” which
I wholeheartedly agree with.
A brilliant premise. a wonderful story well told, a captivating read.
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