Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers Review

Overall Rating

A well crafted and frighteningly powerful novel full of twists and turns, both literally and in the darkest recesses of the human mind.

Frighteningly possible. Just how many people out there have had a similar experience?

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan is highly descriptive, but the reader sees everything with blurred vision; the characters are never completely imaginable (with the exception of Robert) and although it is obviously set in Venice, this is never explicitly stated. This gives the novel a far greater impact on the reader- it (I'll leave it up to you to find out what)could have happened to any young, metropolitan couple, anywhere in the world. Colin and Mary are very easy characters to relate to. We are led into a world of desire and 'evil' power, in the same way as Colin and Mary, we see their fate but don't believe it..

Read it and see..!