Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Darkness in life's morning:

Nicola Griffith's novels are focusing more and more astutely on the struggle to separate from family, the transition described as eloquently by Gail Sheehy as by the new-age spokesentity Michael. Slow River deals immediately and instantaneously with these themes, presenting its POV character with a crisis that forces her to do this work years before she might normally be inclined to. The Blue Place shows us a more likely (if no more realistic) example of the transition.

Aud Torvingen had a horribly... more info

Compelling, complex, genre-defying:

Complex, layered, The Blue Place is a genre masterpiece. It centers on - indeed, is told from the first-person point of view of, Aud Torvingen, a Jane Bond fantasy super-heroine. Aud is wealthy, sophisticated, brilliant; sensual and beautiful: skilled in martial arts, accomplished in . . . the arts of death.

Yet . . . Griffith writes against genre. Her first novel, Ammonite, neatly deconstructed the lesbian fantasy-utopia of a world without men, and I suspect she's up to much of the same here.

An entry... more info

Pure emotion.:

Wow.

I don't know where to start.. this book was emotion embodied. Utterly enchanting.. frustrating, beautiful, heartbreaking, glorious.. just EMOTION. It struck my heart deeply and left a mark. I actually cried once.

If you're looking for a book that highlights the struggles of lesbians in a homophobic world, or a strictly butch/femme romance, or even a lush romance novel... Look elsewhere.

The Blue Place is gritty, cold, harsh and even painful at times. The realism is startling and it can be quite... more info

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