Hand Yelling

I’m not a book reviewer, so this isn’t a review but I am an avid reader so this is simply a rave.

Every once in a while I read something so extraordinary I blog about it. Hand selling is selling to one reader at a time. When you do it on your blog to thousands of readers at a time I call it Hand Yelling.

So.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith is the best debut novel I have read in years.

It’s a tale of art, love, loss and madness. The language is truly astonishing, the characters literally leap off the page, and the story is so compelling that you keep turning the pages, needing to know, desperately know, what happens to this astonishing man in his quest – for his art and his heart. 

When I closed the book after reading the last page, I put my head down and wept for a full five minutes. Not many books do that to me.
And now days later, I still can’t stop thinking about it.

There are reviews here if you want to read them.

Comments

[T]

That sounds incredibly good. Thanks for the tip!