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Blueeyedboy: the second in a trilogy of dark, chilling and witty psychological thrillers from bestselling author Joanne Harris

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None at all, really. The jargon is minimal, and it’s all pretty self-explanatory anyway. The chemistry of the small community is essentially the same everywhere; be it a French village, an island, a school or a web community … Harris may be better-known for her lighter works of magical realism, but she can write a twisty, dark psychological thriller like almost no one else. Like her earlier Gentlemen and Players, this is a multiple-perspective narrative which toys with the many assumptions readers make about identity, reality and truth in fiction. What seems at first to be a straightforward psychological study of a murderer-- a premise which has proved sufficient to inspire many perfectly good suspense thrillers in its own right-- is something much, much more complex and compelling. It’s getting difficult to find my cookbooks in physical form, but they’ve recently all been published digitally right here… You're reading this online. I'm writing this on a computer. I could tell you that my name's Louise, that I'm twenty-two, fully sighted, I'm slim, blonde, blue-eyed and love to play sports. Actually only one of these facts is correct, but how could you know truth from fiction? Is this the best book ever written? Harris’s achievement is not only in her story, in her insight and humour and the wonderful picture of small-town life in rural France, but also in her writing. (Literary Review) French novels

Engrossing psychological thriller...a novel of unusual complexity...Harris, best known for Chocolat , again shows her skill and versatility' -- Mail on Sunday It is with a sigh and a heavy heart that I write this review, as (as I said) I am a huge Joanne Harris fan but this book felt like such a departure from her other books that I love so much – even Gentlemen and Players which is also classed as a thriller but which I loved (it was very plot driven and had humour as well as some great charaters and twists).

BB dreams of travelling, and yet has never even tried to fulfil his dreams. In what way would you say that this defines his character? Colours are very important in this book. What do colours mean to you? What colour associations do you have?

Another theme is that of colour. All the principle characters have a colour assigned to them. The narrator sees colours behind words. Again, a clever idea but to my mind the constant references to different shades of blue became annoying.blueeyedboy is dark, and not feel-good at all. The theme of food is there, but twisted, where before it's always seemed like a kind of good magic, in Harris' work -- although again, I can see a theme continuing, like the smell of oranges from Five Quarters of the Orange.

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