I received The Book of True Believer by M. Funk as an ARC through netgalley and it exceeded expectations. Thanks extended to Netgalley for enabling me to be able to provide reviews for amazing books.
The Book of True Believer: A political allegory about love, empathy, pain, and power. It is the story of every Empath, walking through life extra sensitively and keenly observing. The protagonist wears a pair of rose-coloured glasses that seeks to find the best and most beautiful in every person and circumstance. Written in a journal format, this book entrances readers with the inner workings of a mind and heart who has not only memorialised and comprehended the most precious traits of everyone she’s met, but has also assimilated them and emulated them back out to the world.
It’s a story of an empath who guilelessly gets caught up in a manipulative and scheming situation, who uses the gift of sensitivity that she possesses to navigate through the maze of confusion to find herself wiser, stronger, and a minister for Truth In the end. True masterfully extracts wisdom from every aspect of the experience and digests them into her being. Like a Lobster thrown into a pot of boiling water, she soon comes to see all of the ugliness of the world surrounding her and yet struggles to pull herself out of it. The whole novel is a mammoth journey in its truest form that allows the reader to see the world through True’s eyes.
M. Funk utilises the story to intertwine lyrical threads of poetic prose which I found at times utterly breath-taking. One such example of this is the quote
“Anger often presents as a secondary response to another, primary emotion: fear, shame, guilt, or worry. That’s why it’s so easy for anger to escalate to rage. But anger only serves one real purpose in our lives: to combat injustice.”
M. Funks style and prose easily make her an author to watch out for and she will soon be up there with the likes of Margaret Atwood and so many more. I am therefore awarding this novel 4 stars.
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