Chris Cleave in a week

Chris Cleave

 
So I just finished two of English author Chris Cleave's books, Little Bee and Incendiary. I read them both in a week, and they were both equally captivating and memorable. Although these two novels may be a world a part in plot and characters they both represent Cleave's overwhelming ability to capture human frailty and emotional complexity and the personal contradictions any and all deal with when we are placed in situations outside of our comfort zone. They both deal with characters who makes mistakes, who deals with guilt and who tries to find their footing in a world where help and support does not always, if ever, come for free. Some of the insight into simple life that is presented though the observations of the strong female leads in both these books are far from typical, yet so true it is sometimes tempting to pretend you never read the words on the page at all.

 
In these books Cleave takes you on a journey of fear, desperation, and forced acceptance of our human flaws. Read Read Read them!! I suspect these will not be the last Cleave books to end up on my bookshelf this summer, that's for sure.