Consumer Critique: Closed Doors

Disclosure: I received complimentary products to facilitate this post. All opinions are my own.

Some time ago I reviewed The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell. She has a new book out now, Closed Doors. She says of the story, “The Death of Bees was a story I always wanted to tell. It was inside me. CLOSED DOORS is a story that told itself to me. I was listening to a Blondie song “In the Flesh”. I had this image of a little boy staring at a dancing older woman through her bedroom window and everything grew from there. The innocence of the boy spying on a woman unaware of the eye upon her mirrors the eye of men in general. There often is no harm intended when a man glances over a woman, but the objectification is where the trouble in CLOSED DOORS begins and I wanted to catch this boy before it was too late. I embroidered a tale, which perhaps steals Michael’s innocence but at the same time will forever change him as a man.”


It's an intriguing way to start the book, and it's hard to say much about the book without giving away too much. It's a well-written book that explores the complexities of relationships and truth, and healing from pain. It's a little difficult to get a complete sense of what's going on, since the story is based on what the eleven-year-old boy is able to hear  and piece together, but overall it's an engaging story.

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