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Anne-So "Echos de Mots", blogger, bookstagramer and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends
Les Dazzled
by Aylin Manço, published on October 5, 2022 by Sarbacane Editions.
His favorite quote:
How do you draw a look?
Should a line be drawn that connects the viewer to the one being viewed?
Or, should we consider the gaze as a projector, a spot, and only draw the way it illuminates the one on whom it is focused?
There were three important looks at Jamet's canteen that day.
One: Luce's about her new comrades.
Two: that of Alex on Luce.
Three... Three?
The third would come later.
Why this book?
Because after the disconcerting and unforgettable
Ogresse
, Aylin Manço
returns with a new gem of young adult literature:
Les Dazzled
.
In this novel, we follow a group of friends evolving in the boarding school of their college-high school Jamet.
Already busy discovering themselves, their loves, their bodies and their relationships, the interns will develop amazing gifts one by one.
If they are initially excited by the arrival of these powers, things will gradually degenerate.
Because in addition to these young heroes in the era of time,
we follow the story of Gus in dotted lines.
With great accuracy and a very colorful pen, the author gives us what seems to be the touching first emotions of a boy who falls madly in love, in the blink of an eye, with a young girl he knows nothing about.
Gradually, the thread of his story unfolds to reveal a dark and disturbing truth.
Because
Les Dazzled
stands out and shakes up the codes.
If the basic plot may look like many teen books, it is not.
Once again, the author surprises and stands out with her incredibly incisive pen and her sometimes luminous universe thanks to whole, fiery and full of life adolescent heroes, sometimes deliciously macabre.
She mixes romance and horror, sex and introspection, pain and hope... and fascinates her reader as much as she upsets him.
Because
Les Dazzled
is one of those novels that move the guts
and etch themselves forever in the mind of a reader.
The author pulls out of the game by offering us a literary UFO with fantastic accents without taboos and without filters, populated by heroes who explore their sexuality, the power of their friendship and the devastation of loneliness.
If the writing may seem crude, it above all allows for a narration that is as sensitive as it is authentic.
In short, 381 pages of a work carried out by a master's hand: disconcerting, bewitching and quite simply brilliant.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
When Luce joins Jamet, she wants to live to the fullest, lose her virginity, fit in and scare herself thanks to the ghost that would haunt the place.
When all his friends, one by one, develop powers, it's euphoria...until fear takes over.
Characters.
Here we follow the volcanic Luce surrounded by her new friends, including the empathetic Timo, the intense Alex or even Nour and her desire to find her place.
All the characters stand out and really add to the story.
Places.
The novel takes place in the boarding school of the college-high school of Jamet, a former training institute for teachers.
The time.
The story takes place mostly in the present day with a few flashbacks to follow Gus.
The author.
Aylin Manço is an author from Brussels living in France.
His novel
Ogresse
received the Libbylit 2021 prize, awarded by the IBBY, in the best Belgian novel category.
This book was read with
pleasure by Anne-So Echos de Mots, blogger specializing in children's and teenage literature.
“For me, reading can be as much a personal pleasure in which one runs to take refuge as an excuse to discuss and meet other readers.
I am a lover of words always interested in new discoveries.
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