Book Review

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It is remarkable to find a book so well written, one that allows the reader to develop the smell sense; most descriptively, the author gives us this unique chance to feel such a hard sense to describe.

Likewise, the story is quite interesting, with a disturbed character and his demons, psychological issues go on as his need to feel loved, and the rise of his own quest to develop a perfume containing the proper essence, which may allow him to finally be loved by others, to be accepted by the world (what he wanted the most).

The book tells the awakening of a murderer, and his inner fight of trying to fill what his soul and life lack while feeding his desperation by taking the dark path and so, leading the story to an unexpected ending.

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