One of the many secret pleasures books may offer is the virtual travel all over the world, from the comfort of your chair, in the most unexpected places. As a devoted traveller myself, I am no stranger to many places off the beaten path, but there are too many to cover up in two lifetimes.
When it comes to America, the regret of not being able to travel there too often, to feel the many places is compensated only by the chance I regularly have, of reading books placed in those areas. Set in the deep South, Holy City by Henry Wise was a surprising read.
As Will returns to the aptly - with my note on sarcasm - named Euphoria in Virginia County, it was a long time since he last visited the place. But he is well remembered and he may meet some ghosts from his past as well. But this meeting is more than a pleasure ride through the memory lane. The events happening around him, may bring back some situations and people from his past, to whom he cannot be indifferent.
It feels like everything that happens in Holy City is very much dependent of the place and time. It is like the situations cannot be replicated anywhere else. The characters themselves are the results of those circumstances, hence the atmospheric details are very important.
The key of the crime case may be also related to solving conflicts and events from the past, to which Will is no stranger.
I enjoyed the suspense and the unusual Gothic ambiance, and got easily caught into the web of local intrigue and secrecy.
The book also deserves a special mention, as it convenes in a very appropriate way the floating ambiance of the book, where everything seems to hide beyond a confusing layer of deep burried secrets.
Rating: 5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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