Vagabundo

"The way the author told the story was very unique to me. I thought it would be a love story, and it was, but not in the way i thought. I thought it would be a rags-to-riches story, and it was but not in the way I thought."

"I’d like to begin by saying how much I loved reading your novel. The style is immediate and engaging, pared down, yet laced with enough immersive prose to give a strong sense of mood, character and place. The concept and themes are original, introducing us to a world most are unfamiliar with, and yet has great recognisable elements, particularly to those who travel. The town of Brisas is rendered with rich and vivid detail. I particularly like the idea of having us settle in one location to explore its many facets, and in turn explore its people and hierarchies. For the most part your tale is a bildungsroman with a difference – rather than coming of age, this is a coming of middle age story; we are faced with a grown man who lost himself at some point during his childhood, and never gave himself the chance to fully realise who he might be. He’s a tortured, self loathing figure, and yet the more we learn the more we begin to see the noble, gentle person beneath the visage of the vagabond, as he simultaneously discovers this himself. This novel very loosely reminds me of Alex Garland’s The Beach, mixed with an adult rendering of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies."