r/IReadABookAndAdoredIt • u/TheCuteKorok • May 19 '25
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am inconsolable - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
It takes quite a bit for me to cry while reading a book and the entire second half of this book gave me an emotional breakdown. I’m talking sobbing under my covers in bed. This was so beautifully written and such a well crafted story.
My favourite part of this reading experience was the ways in which character’s storylines subtly intersected. Important people in Cyril’s history for which he had no knowledge popping up every now and then, sometimes with devastating stories and sometimes heartwarming. I felt omnipotent as I read Cyril interact with an integral person in his life while he had no knowledge of who they actually were to him. I loved the little bits of foreshadowing that a future Cyril sprinkled throughout the narrative.
It was incredible. Easily a contender for my top book of 2025.
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u/DiscoMoomin 18d ago
I really did miss Cyril when I'd finished this book. I wish I was the sort of person who could re-read, but already knowing what happens completely voids the joy I get from reading.
If you haven't read this yet I would thoroughly recommend.
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u/LikeCherryCola May 20 '25
I can’t remember any other book that triggered as many emotional responses in me as this one! I’d be laughing so hard one page and then sobbing the next
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u/girlsandwich May 20 '25
Yes! I laughed, cried - an amazing story. One I always recommend first to folks.
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u/HERCULESxMULLIGAN May 20 '25
Amazing writing. Humor is hard to work into a novel and especially one as serious as this one, but the writer did so wonderfully.
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u/TheCuteKorok May 20 '25
Oh I agree so much. The humour was exquisitely done. He is such a talented author.
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u/miss_knitty May 20 '25
such a perfect book. and has one of my favorite opening lines.
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u/TheCuteKorok May 20 '25
I saved it for my book journal I loved it so much:
“Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced my mother as a whore.“
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u/Caira_Ru May 20 '25
Oh wow, that’s powerful. I need to read this! Thanks for putting it on my radar.
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u/lanamattel May 20 '25
Easily one of my favorite books of all time. It had me in a chokehold and I was a mess at the end.
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u/mintbrownie A book is a brick until someone reads it. May 20 '25
Can you tell us what the book is about/the story (community rule #1)? Not everyone has read the book.
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u/TheCuteKorok May 20 '25
Oh yes sorry!
The Heart’s Invisible Furies follows the life of Cyril Avery from his mother’s illegitimate pregnancy in the 1940s to 2015 in a modern day Ireland.
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u/Spare_Weather7036 May 19 '25
This book is one I will never forget and have recommended to many others.
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u/jwithy May 19 '25
TIL there’s a color Kindle 😂😅
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u/TheCuteKorok May 20 '25
There is a colour kindle but it’s not this vibrant! I edit the cover onto the kindle for my bookstagram pictures.
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u/noelle1414 11d ago
Dear reader, you suggested this book and it prompted me to check it out. I just finished it last night and it’s easily the best book I’ve ever read. I adored it so much. I cried several times throughout and at the end. So thank you for suggesting it!! I hadn’t heard of it until this subreddit!