At previous lyrical and magical flights, Mathias Malzieu managed to couple fairyland fantasy and sad reality (sorry for pleonasms!). It is this interference in these two worlds that novels drew all their strength, allowing the reader to appropriate the story while bearing away by a sweet dream. But what began to transpire at times with "La Mécanique du coeur" breaks out here on display: by wanting to tap into a baroque parallel universe, he gets lost in the meanders of an imaginary that only he is able to grasp in its entirety.
If some good times save this new installment of the Dionysian singer missed, however, they are too scarce to avoid a deep disappointment; especially since all the ingredients together seemed to allow a great success with an anti-hero stunt missed, an incurable disease and the arrival of a woman with almost divine powers, only able to change the painful course things but at the cost of a large sacrifice.
Alas, the sauce takes only rarely and the reader ends up bored with a narrative that drags on and never allow the reader to identify with the character of Tom Cloudman, unlike previous Malzieu novels. The universe created around the story seems this time too artificial with a lack of enchantment and magic and a need (hopefully not be dictated by the marketing aspect / commercial) creating bizarre characters, and so what if they are totally devoid of humanity.
In short, all is revealed very disappointing when you know what the Sieur Malzieu can usually. Rest now concentrate on the new album Dionysus just out, wishing it for its part up to the expectations of fans, more than four years after their last album ...
