Your Still Beating Heart by Tyler Keevil

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For me the main question raised by this novel is whether there is a need for the central character to be likable because I never warmed to Eira – even when she is putting herself a risk for others there just felt like an emptiness at the core of her.

Maybe this is due to the third person narrator, the story is told by someone that was not actually there, the one telling us the tale is fictionalising around the basic facts that they know – it is a fiction within a fiction.

It is the drama and tension in the story that keeps you engaged.