Beautiful Wreck Larissa Brown 9781937513313 Books
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Title Beautiful Wreck Binding Paperback Author LarissaBrown Publisher CooperativePress
Beautiful Wreck Larissa Brown 9781937513313 Books
I rarely give any book 5 stars but I have never read a time travel book so great. The author has done her homework and it shows. The book is historically accurate and well written. The story unfolds slowly, like a flower blossoming; despite this I did not find the pace too slow. The timing made the story seem all that more realistic and possible. This story is no heroine meets hero and immediately falls in bed with him. The slow approach makes the love seem all the more realistic, There are no disturbing 20th or 21st century anachronisms. I read a lot of history and historical fiction, but have gotten more selective over time because I can't stand 20th century cultural thinking in another time period. Even the time travel device was so well thought out that it seems scientifically possible. Usually I prefer third person narrators but first person here made was perfect because we see through the yes of a modern person. Larissa Brown has become one of my favorite authors. I agree with the other 5 star reviews. I disagree with the reviewer who favorably compared the book to Diana Gabaldon's Highlander series; I couldn't finish her first book. There was too much gratuitous sex that seemed like a poor plot device.Product details
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Beautiful Wreck Larissa Brown 9781937513313 Books Reviews
"Now in the 22nd century, everyone lived--to some degree--in a world that had happened before. We studied and debated and reanimated the words and fashions of a hundred yesterdays and adopted them as though we'd run out of original things to be. In the aughts and teens, being part of an anachronistic culture had been unusual. Now it was the norm. Everyone had a place and time they loved, and they lived in it every moment they could."
- quote from first chapter of Larissa Brown's "Beautiful Wreck"
Jen, a linguistic artist, lives in a stark future. People pay to submerse themselves in bygone eras, and Jen's part of a programming team that creates authentic virtual realities or `sims.' Her area of expertise is 10th century Viking times. Touching ancient artifacts and reading an early diary about the Viking people lives fills her with wonder and longing. It's bliss escaping into a place where there's real green grass, a blue sky, an abundance of life, and real purposeful living. When Jen wakes up freezing cold on black sand beach after entering a Viking sim she can't `tap out' of the program. She wakes on the black sand of Iceland's freezing coast. Then, she is saved by Heirik, a Viking chief and becomes truly immersed into the people, land, and the `cursed' man. To find a way back to the 22nd century or find a way to reach the lonely, disfigured chief becomes Jen's dilemma.
I read this book based on a reliable Goodreads friend's review. She loved it. She didn't love it. Five star potential and yadda yadda yadda...I was very curious. The price was right. I decided to try it. What the heck, right? I would put it down and move on if it was not my cup of tea...I read this book until 2 o'clock in the morning ON MY iPHONE!!! Waking up the next morning with a raging headache, I popped some tylenol and finished the last 6% of the novel. This is why I'm rounding up the stars to 4.
"Beautiful Wreck" is compared to Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander." There are similarities (time travel, heroine's first-person narrative, and love of panoramic setting or `exposition') and notable differences, which I was hoping for and was relieved to find. Let's start with the differences. First, this story has a clear conflict and resolution - no plot-oriented tangents and no cliffhanger! Second, the focus stays on the hero and heroine (perhaps, a bit too much attention to the heroine). Jen/Ginn's friend Betta has page time, but she's part of the plot (and she's interesting too). Next, life is mostly peaceful in comparison to "Outlander," which means no rapes, beatings or torture. Finally, "Wreck" is simply a love story - a love of Heirik, with an appreciation of nature and Iceland. There's isn't an over-achieving goal to alter history.
What was so addictive about the book was that I couldn't get enough of Heirik. Born with a disfiguring birthmark over half his body doomed him as `cursed.' Forbidden from taking a wife or feeling the touch from one his clan members from birth he has learned to adapt and survive. He protects his people and has earned their fearful respect. His life is what it is. Overall, Heirik's loneliness was a tangible thing for me.
Jen, who became known as `Ginn,' was lonely too, but it was never explained to my satisfaction. She's a linguistics artist from the barren future (not sure why...it's not explained). She can't make connections to the people in her time...no backstory. Ginn travels through time...hazy.) And she reaches a time where she finds someone as lonely as her (and falls in love really fast). She finds a beautiful, lonely man who needs her as much as she's compelled to need and connect with him. There was so much longing in "Beautiful Wreck" that I felt almost afraid for a sad ending. Be at ease; there's a happy and clear ending.
There is beauty in the exposition. (There's also a bit too much repetition.) What this book is lacking is a focus on meaningful interactions with dialogue, as other reviewers have commented upon. The way `untouchable' Heirik and Ginn tip-toe around each other is nearly frustrating - too much angst with Heirik that didn't seem quite in keeping to his character. There is so much build-up, but I couldn't stop reading!
I can live without graphic sex in my romances, but I do wish there would have been more detail in their lovemaking. Intimacy! I needed it because here is a man who hasn't been touched by a woman since his mother cared for him and...I was hoping for a variety of poignant scenes involving touch - the face, the body ...everything!
Anyway, I really enjoyed this book. The characters were compelling, the setting rich. The ending was satisfying. Although, I would have liked more happiness between the characters on the pages, I look forward to more of this author's work, and also considering that this is a debut novel I am impressed. She does leave this world open for future books, and I've been told there will be an upcoming novella.
I almost passed this up. I couldn't imagine medieval Iceland as interesting. Smoky close houses of sod, sheep, and interminable winters? But I'm glad the reviews caught my attention. It's true. The writing is sweet and clear as a summer morning.
Jen/Ginn is the main character, and we get to know her slowly. Her own time, the 22nd century, is a bit sketchy, because it isn't really the focus of the book. The author gives us just enough to know when Jen is coming from and how the past will be different. And this is where the glory of this writer's prose will shine because in coming from a clean, controlled, flat-screen world into the rough-hewn, smelly past, we experience, through Ginn, the wonder of it all. Sunsets and flowery slopes. And the awakening of her heart.
The love interest is like all good heroes should be flawed and complex, but strong. At one point in the story I truly did not know how they could end up together. That is refreshing for a "romance"--a genre dulled by its predictability. This is a very human story, full of sweat and grubby fingernails, earthy and sensual. It is for mature readers, yet the love scenes are not graphic. It's not a bodice-ripper.
It've seen it compared to Outlander by others. It has the same strength of prose, and the same kind of research effort behind it. But I find it gentler. Outlander is raw and graphic at times, with psychopathic villains. I think I prefer Ms. Brown.
This is my favorite book of my adult life. I have read it four times and each reading love it more. I found it after reading the Outlander series. And this is far better. It feels more real, and without the soap opera, gratuitous sex, and manufactured drama. I was initially a little turned off by the beginning...but hang in there...it gets good! I love the realness, rawness, and how I feel like I have visited the Iceland in the 10th century. I also love how the forces keeping Ginn and Heirik apart are believable. Not simple miscommunication like in so many other books. I can't wait to read more about this place and these people!
I rarely give any book 5 stars but I have never read a time travel book so great. The author has done her homework and it shows. The book is historically accurate and well written. The story unfolds slowly, like a flower blossoming; despite this I did not find the pace too slow. The timing made the story seem all that more realistic and possible. This story is no heroine meets hero and immediately falls in bed with him. The slow approach makes the love seem all the more realistic, There are no disturbing 20th or 21st century anachronisms. I read a lot of history and historical fiction, but have gotten more selective over time because I can't stand 20th century cultural thinking in another time period. Even the time travel device was so well thought out that it seems scientifically possible. Usually I prefer third person narrators but first person here made was perfect because we see through the yes of a modern person. Larissa Brown has become one of my favorite authors. I agree with the other 5 star reviews. I disagree with the reviewer who favorably compared the book to Diana Gabaldon's Highlander series; I couldn't finish her first book. There was too much gratuitous sex that seemed like a poor plot device.
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