Opening Pandora's box ...

A sixteen year old teenager tells in first person how he felt betrayed and devastated when he discovered that his father read his blog on the Internet, BLOG, its freedom, its private beach area which others can access, but his father? This is espionage, intimate and intellectual rape! Angry, he decided not to speak to his father, despite an apology from him. Life becomes painful at home in this heavy silence between the little sister Nina is a real plague and mother trying to smooth things as do all mothers of the world. To redeem himself, his father, will offer him a box containing a treasure, a Pandora's box that you can not close once opened: his diaries teenager, in the age of the ink and paper, his life and his memories straight out of the 80s first reluctant, our teenager will delve into the past life of her father and discover many things he did not suspect, that a terrible accident that his father always to protect you ...

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, since it contains the whole universe Blondel, in a clever and interesting building without being provided artificial: the history of the blog, although it allows a very fair approach to adolescence and youth over the Internet and the real world of today, is finally an excuse to offer a beautiful novel about the fragility fragile beings, fragile life, fragility relationships .... Enjoy today, you do not know what tomorrow will bring, and all may stop earlier.

Roman sensible and just, anchored in a past and present reality by constant back and forth between the past Philippe, the father and son of this, deeply human novel about the transmission, the father-son relationship, the life force and power of friendship, the birth of love (as Anne-So evolves throughout the novel), the transition to adulthood .... Similarly reappear strong themes already glimpsed in previous books: the loss of a brother, family, self-construction, writing. Through the diary / blog and the author discusses the potential role of the intimate writing (then short while writing) in a life, why we write, what's the point, that in fact we ...

p.62: "When I stopped writing, I said that fiction was perhaps my way of reducing suffering. To control it. And above all, never to be alone. "

As often in literature, you have to cross painful moments to see again the hope and joy of living: this is the journey of this little teen novel that ends with a positive and happy note!

(From 13 years)