While the criticism of many others about the ending is quite justified, this story of the power of books to move people caught me up and I had great difficulty letting it go (If the last section had been a bit stronger this would easily have crept into the 4.5 or 5* range)
The story opens up with a bookseller, Luca Campelli, being literally captivated by a book, followed by his death. Then the focus moves to his son Jon Campelli, a lawyer, who has been estranged from his father for years and now owns his father's bookshop Libri di Luca.
He finds himself caught up in a world he never knew about, a world where people can use books to influence others, to bring pictures in their minds of what's in the book and to sometimes change their minds. However there are the people like those who killed his father who aren't exactly nice about this ability, who want to use it for power and influence.
I really did enjoy this story, the descriptions of reading and being caught up in a book really did reflect the reality of being caught up in a book and ramped it up a bit. A book for book-lovers.
