Star rating:
Book introduction by Ivan Bacic:
It's hard when painting is all you want to do in your life, but you can't tell the red from the green color and everyone thinks that you are not suited to become a painter; that you are just not meant to be.
However, it's even harder to lose your parents and then comes war, destruction, scarcity, poverty and moral collapse of the society.
Still, the hardest thing in life is when you become a victim of the sexual assault and he, who did it, is never to be found.
At first, you lose faith in people, then you start to blame yourself and, in the end, you find your salvation in religion, and you think - If only I could paint the perfect Crucifixion, I might be forgiven.
Year after year you spend every moment of your bloody life focused and dedicated to a single painting and after years and years of unsuccessful pursuit for the holy grail, you find HIM, in a model who is posing on your cross, in high religious official, and before all, your friend!
Suddenly, all colors become visible and everything becomes bloody green.
My experience with the book:
The story revolves around a boy named Strahinya Vukic. This book does not start with some suspense or build up towards a scene, but with an instant shock and I love it. I admire how there was an allude of such intensity and dramatic effect right at the beginning. You tend to have a knee jerk reactions and get hooked instantly. The shock etches a certain curiosity in the minds of the readers to know about the series of events that let to the author to take such drastic steps.
Ivan provides a terminology meaning section at the end of the book, I suggest that you go through it before you read the book as it's really helpful.
Although, Ivan is the true author of the book- Bloody Green, he adds another person in his book who is supposedly the author of Bloody Green which is based of a case he handled as an Investigator in Hungarian police. You should truly appreciate Ivan's ability to pull this off.
The lead of the book is a boy who is color blind and although most of the story in the book revolves around his life, it is not written from a single person narrative. Every chapter and every story is interlinked to each other. Each chapter description is vast and vivid and may seem completely unrelated, but Ivan manages to interconnect all of these chapters by going back and forth with the stories and lead up to the section he wants to tell and it all makes complete sense.
During the initial course of the story, Strahinya is interrogated from a hospital bed about the various events that come to pass in his life since his childhood. He recollects all the tragic events that unfolds and takes place and your heart goes out to him. Death in the family and friends that shatters your heart is just the tip of an ice berg. Ivan has a unique way of introducing new characters and linking them to old ones and it's like solving a jigsaw puzzle when it all clicks. There are several other parts of the book which is not about Strahinya like a friends father, a soldier blowing away all his money and leaving family which leads his friend to grow into a drug addict and the life expedition he goes through. Strahinya's lover and so many other integrated characters.
This novel is not your regular thriller, it doesn't make you think what next? It takes you on a journey of new discoveries and learning. Ivan is not your average author. He is extremely skilled author who knows how to use human beings emotional quotient and bring tears into his readers eyes. This book is truly advanced and you really have to follow the story with keen interest and intensity to truly catch up (which comes to you naturally as this book gets you hooked!) This book was truthfully an emotional roller coaster and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was on my toes most of the time, inquisitive to know what happens next. I honestly empathized with each and every character in the book and began to see life in a new light. The sequence of events that reveals itself throughout the book, one after the other are filled with unexpected shocks. Just when you think that you have come to make peace with the tragedy that recently unfolded before your eyes, Ivan slaps you with a new one and the cycle of digesting these events and being slapped with the new ones continue.
Jokes apart, Ivan has done a brilliant job with this book. I would truly recommend this book to everyone. This book left me thinking about it for several days and very few books have this effect on me.
About the novel and the author:
All you need to know about the author and the book is here. What more? this book is absolutely free.
Go grab it right now!
#bookreview #book #thriller #suspense #emotions #pain #injustice #society #indiauthor #booklove #loveforreading #reviews #review #typer #beauty #movie #reviewer #love #blog #youtube #feedback