This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki's brilliant cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150 years ago. The subject of the world's longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Mis rables is a genuine literary treasure. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation's 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction. The only saving grace was the the narrator Lee Samuels was really good which made me listen to the end when.The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo's masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos-published in a stunning Deluxe edition. So, this, like "Adrien English" left me feeling flat and unsatisfied. Even though Flinn and Kirk spent a lot of time together and EVENTUALLY(5 hrs into a 6hr audiobook) they had a tumble, there was no flirtation or rapport between them, let alone romance. It was in 'done before and better' ghost story territory and the romance was barely there. I found the plot really slow and repetitive. In this story it wasn't a body in the bath, but dealing with loss of loved ones and a haunted mirror that bought the protagonists together. This particular book was a carbon copy of the set up of "The Ghost wore Yellow socks" in that we had two men in a rickety old house in the middle of nowhere, both of them with emotional issues and a something that forces them to work together. I enjoyed "The Ghost wore Yellow Socks" and her "Holmes and Moriarity" series, but hated "Adrien English". This book continues my hit and miss with Lanyon's work. I'm sad that there aren't more books after this one from what I understand, the series is cancelled with many loose ends.
There's not a big focus on romance, more on the enigma and the loss of Flynn, but the mystery is exciting and makes our characters deal with their demons. In one of those objects that he catalogues, Flynn discovers an old mirror that begins to haunt them, and their lives end up taking some crazy turns that will go through the depths of their hearts. But Flynn will do anything but leave him alone - even if he doesn't mean to. And in the same house where Flynn is currently living, we have Kirk, a tenant who likes peace, work and sleep undisturbed. The story introduces us to Flynn, a young boy cataloguing and organizing all the things his late uncle left him, while dealing with the loss of the love of his life. I liked the voice of narrator Lee Samuels and how he distinguished the characters, showing us, through his voice, their emotions.
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