Book Review: The Fairy Wren by Ashley Capes

Synopsis

Paul Fischer is an emotionally distant bookseller who finds himself beaten down by his failing business, which transforms life in the Australian coastal town of Stony Bay into a daily struggle. 

When he receives a strange phone call asking for help, from a woman who may or may not be his estranged wife Rachel, he is drawn into a mysterious search that threatens not only his livelihood, but long-buried dreams too.

Review

The hard thing for me as a reviewer is to try and find the right words to describe my love of a book that I highly enjoyed. Especially one that is so well written that you hope your words will do it justice.
I just feel like an amateur (which I am), next to this amazing, well written story.
And I'm especially not saying this because the author contacted me to review his book, this is my honest opinion....I love this book!

In the point of view of Paul Fischer, who seems to be having one life blow after the other.
His bookstore that doesn't seem to be going as well as he likes, doesn't seem to have any customers coming into his store, and with rent going higher, he doesn't know if he would have his beloved bookstore for long. Which actually made me sad as I love going into bookstores, all I wanted to do was go into his store and buy as many books as I possibly can.
And let's not talk about his ex-wife and the intervention order she has against him.

There is so much I want to talk about, but because so much happens in such a short story, I don't want to give anything away.  So I'm just going to lightly go over the things I love about this book (which is basically all of it).

Paul's character was very interesting, at first he seemed that he wanted to move on with his life and try and find his path. Even though with the help of family and friends, he seems to always be in trouble. I think if other people were in his situation they would've of broken down and had a nervous breakdown, but not Paul, he held his head up high and was constantly thinking of others, especially his ex-wife Rachel.

There was also this presence of a supernatural feeling with the fairy wren. It didn't take up the whole story, even though it was a major part of it, it just felt like it was in the background. Is it really something magical, or just plain superstition on Paul's part?
I have a very superstitious nature, if I see if an animal is trying to tell me something, I would try and find out what that is. We aren't the only race that can communicate, why not believe in the unbelievable?

Like I said at the beginning, I don't know how to put into words on how much I love this book. I was gripped right from the beginning, and I literally could not put it down. I'm not joking, I was taking this book everywhere just so I can find out what will happen next.
Hats off to Ashley Capes for such a brilliant, well written, magical novel. Please do not stop writing, especially if they are all like this.



My star rating for The Fairy Wren by Ashley Capes is: (of course)