Shot-Blue

It is beautiful and tangible. It was dipping your feet into the cold water, of the early summer morning. It was breath-taking and raw and tender. It was a single mother and son relationship to a silence of adsolence, to grow of loss, bullying, first-love and creating a path of choice for himself. Tr......more

Ruddock's tale is woven from a unique blend of realism and purple prose, added with a dash of mystery to form an interesting and mesmerizing concoction of literary ideas. It showcases humanity's weakness in terms of loneliness and how there are few people in this world who regard loneliness as being......more

I am thus far consumed with Book One (the first part of the novel), which is very dream-like, very unnerving, and quite gripping in its emotional reach. I don't pretend to understand the actions of any of the characters, all of whom seem rather detached from their own motivations. They all seem to ca......more

This is a coming of age story about a young boy, Tristan, who lives with his mother on an unnamed and isolated Canadian island. Despite the wildness and remote setting it is a claustrophobic relationship and existence for the boy, and he lacks many social skills when he is with other children. The n......more