Blue eyed boy - livro de bolso

Some books are fairly easy to write. Some are rather more difficult. And some are just like Rubik’s cubes, a jumble of colours twisting and turning with no apparent solution in sight. Blueeyedboy was not so much a Rubik’s cube as that fiendish Chinese puzzle-box in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser movies, the box that summons demons. At least, that’s what it felt like to me – and if a few of those demons managed to crawl inside the pages of this book, then I can’t say I’m entirely surprised.

I started out three years ago, with nothing but fragments of plotline and my narrator’s voice to guide me. I’d been going through some troublesome times, and my sunny disposition had taken something of a blow. I found I didn’t want to write, and spent far too much time online, hanging around various sites and searching out ever more ingenious ways of evading reality. Under a pseudonym, I made a number of online friends, wrote a great deal of fanfic, and began to take an increasing interest in the way people interact online, the communities they create and join, and the way they choose to portray themselves. I began to understand that the small communities that have always informed my writing also exist in the virtual world, with the same little cliques of insiders, outsiders, gossips, liars, exhibitionists and bullies as in the “real” world. I understood too, how emotionally dependent people can sometimes become on their virtual friends and their virtual communities, even though there can be no way of knowing how honest these avenues of communication really are.

From all this came Blueeyedboy, a dark psychological thriller set in the world of the internet, where no-one is quite what they seem to be, and every taste is catered for, even the ones to which we dare not confess.

My hero – B.B., or Blueeyedboy – is a man in his early forties who still lives with his mother, about whom he has murderous fantasies, which he translates into fiction, and posts to a website called badguysrock. This virtual community, created by Blueeyedboy, purports to celebrate fictional villains everywhere, and through this medium he keeps in touch with his online friends – some of which are also known to him in real life, most particularly Albertine, with whom he shares a troubled past. But Blueeyedboy, like Albertine, is not exactly what he seems. As we unravel the events of his past; his tortuous relationship with his mother; his feud with his two brothers and the details of his secret life, we uncover the truth about Blueeyedboy’s past –- and a twenty-year-old murder…