The Absolutist

Have to say, John Boyne does tell a really good story, it really does flow quite beautifully and, despite being quite gruesome in parts, I loved the story, that is, up until the ending. You cannot love the ending to this book, I feel incredibly sad and a little bit angry. It's just so awful that someone felt they had to torture themselves for 60 years, living in a kind of emotionless purgatory, friendless and unloved. What horrible times they were for a lot of people, and yet some bleat on “it was never like that in my day” like it was a good thing... pffft.