The perfect
couple, the perfect love. Only twenty-two, Mathilde and Lotto see all the life
and glamour ahead of them, both into the arts, they are destined to make their
way to the top. But life is not that easy and success on Broadway does not come
easily. So this easygoing love has to face hard times of marriage and
especially the secrets that lie much deeper than both of them would ever
expect.
I found it
rather difficult to find my way into the novel, it took some time to see
through the narrative structure which springs backwards and forwards and thus
reveals secret after secret and changing thereby the whole plot. In the end,
you have got a completely different story from what you had in the beginning or
the middle; this is not only astonishing, but rather fascinating.
The main
characters, besides Mathilde and Lotto, basically another friend and Lotto’s mother
and much younger sister, are drawn in a very authentic and plausible way.
Albeit the fact that Mathilde’s life seems to be rather strange and unique, you
can imagine those people and you find traits in them that are inherent in the
human nature and thus omnipresent in reality.
The title
seems, at first, to be chosen due to the alliteration, it sounds good and is
easy to remember which might help selling the novel. But – and this was quite
an astonishment – it is simply perfect for the novel. I was looking out for the
fury for quite some time, but then it finally hit me like a hammer and the main
character transformed into a Greed goddess like Nemesis who directs the way of
the people around her.
Not an easy
novel to read, sometimes even hard to digest, but it is definitely worth the
hardship.
