Member Review

Oh my goodness! What a captivating story! The title is so apt as although Looking Glass Sound is the name of a location in the book, I feel that as a reader, we step through the looking glass and in to a strange and topsy turvy world where anything is possible.

Water plays a poignant role in the story and I feel that as well as mirrors, water has also played a heavy role in mythology/folklore as a portal to another world.

I like that the characters almost seem self aware Catriona uses the idea that the words are trapped in the book. I feel that all the characters are both bond to each other and trapped either literally or metaphorically (sometimes both).

The author goes in to what it means to be an anti-hero and that readers often like and relate to make anti-heros more. This really highlights that perhaps without realising it, we may all have a little internalised mysongyny to work on.

I thought it was genius to have Wilder slowly loose his vision over time and get grafually more confused about the story of those fateful summers as *spoiler* ........


we find out He had died as a young man and Pearl/Skye tries to write Him a new ending so of course this version of events would be more unclear and impossible to see.