Heartbreaker
By Claudia Dey
3.5/5
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‘Devastating and wickedly funny … I loved it’ Sophie Mackintosh’
‘A dark star of a book’ Lauren Groff
‘I loved its every page’ Sheila Heti
It’s 1985 in The Territory and it always will be.
It’s so cold you can’t feel your feet and from here the outside world is just a dream, but two humans and one animal will show us the way. They’re each searching for someone, a woman who washed up on the shores of this far-flung town and then disappeared. To find her they will have to look deep into the darkness that lies at the edge of love.
Heartbreaker is an astounding feat of imagination with its own riotous rhythm and the resounding message that humanity can be found in the wildest of places.
Claudia Dey
CLAUDIA DEY is a novelist, playwright and columnist. Her plays have been produced internationally and include Beaver, Trout Stanley and The Gwendolyn Poems, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award. Her debut novel, Stunt, was chosen by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire as a Best Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Dey lives in Toronto and is co-owner and co-creator of the design label Horses Atelier.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked this. It was quirky, but quirky in the good way that knocks you out of your usual ruts of signs, signifiers, and shortcuts to emotion to get at some good truths. And despite its odd premise, including an anachronistic cult complete with strange customs and ritualistic nicknames, the book gets less and less odd as it goes along, and resolves in a real and satisfying fashion. Because it's about basic stuff, really—love, deceit, loneliness, family, and a missing mother. And very much about innocence, helped along by the quirky but reasonable narrative setup: the first chapter from the POV of a tough-but-innocent 15-year-old girl, the second from a sweetly dispassionate-but-loyal old dog, and the third from a not-quite-tough-enough-but-wise 19-year-old young man. But hey, enough with the hyphens—it's good, odd, and sweet, and that's plenty.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I appreciate Random House and Goodreads giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. I wanted to like this book so badly. The premise sounded incredible, and right up my alley. Unfortunately, the reality is that this book bombed for me. It was dry, slow, and boring. Reading it felt like a chore and was very tedious. I had such high hopes, but it just could not hold my interest.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A quirky novel