{"id":232877,"date":"2025-05-09T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/fire-by-john-boyne-the-book-lovers-boudoir\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:37:17","slug":"fire-by-john-boyne-the-book-lovers-boudoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=232877","title":{"rendered":"Fire by John Boyne \u2013 The Book Lover&#8217;s Boudoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-27979\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>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\u2019t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become \u2013 or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Fire-John-Boyne\/dp\/0857529870\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Fire-John-Boyne\/dp\/0857529870<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>WHEN I WAS TWELVE years old, I was buried alive with the ground of a construction site (1).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(Doubleday, Hardback, 7 November 2024, 176, borrowed from Irvine Library)<\/p>\n<p>This is actually the third book in the series so I\u2019m reading out of order. I borrowed this from the library and someone else has reserved it and I can\u2019t renew it so had to read it before book two, <em>Earth<\/em> which I\u2019ll be reading next. This is a bit darker than <em>Water<\/em>. 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\u2019t justify her actions and choices as an adult. I couldn\u2019t sympathise with her at all. Like <em>Water<\/em>, so much happens in <em>Fire\u2019s<\/em> scant pages. This is an unsettling but gripping read.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">4\/5<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. 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