I loved it! This is typically the kind of book that I like because it does its asset someone drive through the puzzles and intrigue that dot the novel. The story goes a hundred miles an hour, no downtime and Lucie joined the anti-hero Sharko pantheon of the tricolor card. Vive la France!
A prologue, 48 chapters and an epilogue.
In auto racing, there are standing starts and rolling starts. In literature, it ''s the same. And there, Franck Thilliez has not sought to procrastinate, he decided that the story would start from the first pages. I found myself smiling several times, not because of any trait author humor, but because I felt the story spinning at great speed through my fingers!
It starts very fast with the first hint that appears on every page of the novel, the number pi and decimal many followers.
Well, the line of humor, we 'have page 88 when Dr. Vandenbusche explains to Lucy what short-term memory, giving the example page 82 of seven elements that normally constituted mind can remember. Fun when he asks her to give him the list. By asking the question to Lucy, she is asked and we like her, we are not able to recite 'One way may be to tell the reader: be careful, I sow clues, store the day before has'
It ''s worth from the author to address in memory of Manon, because qu''il also attacks the memory of his player. It ''s the purpose of a good romagicien, to ensure that the reader will remember certain facts and other oversights. It joined the excellent work of Jeffery Deaver on Man Who Disappeared, when it staged sleight used by a killer to commit murder and also used by the novelist to commit 'his novel!
There Thilliez use of cryptography and mathematical to intrigue the reader. Here magic secret codes and math to fool investigators and those watching over the shoulder of these, we !! (I loved it for the Traps of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Architect) Because that arriving to recover its drive to 2:00 in the morning 'to solve the riddle of Einstein, do eh'
And our memory is tested, with puzzles, with the way the mind works now Manon, and especially that of Lucia. So ours. We realize that the worst enemy of Manon in fact, she and her memory!
Nod with the words of Leon, the taxidermist, we met in [b] the House of the Dead [/ b] and then also with a book that Lucy is about to read: Animal Consciousness'
If the Phantom Memory is a mathematical formula, I would be curious to know how Prof. Thilliez has developed, so there is no room for chance in this story.
I really enjoyed myself and I'm happy to rediscover each novel an author who dares, and that still manages to spice as its surprising ingredients recipe.
The separation is difficult at the end of novels, we learned to love these characters. ' Now we are left with the memories of a phantom memory!
Fredo;)
