Simon had always expected love to feel different than this. Whether it was his Catholic upbringing or the poetry he'd read - Simon had thought that true love would be uplifting, fulfilling, that it would give a meaning to his loitering, and add joy to his leisure. But not this kind of love. This love was a flesh-eating monster, sharp-clawed and evil-eyed, ravishing his mind with medieval cruelty.
Dr Simon Mráz is a respected specialist and lecturer at the Charles University in Prague. He is a serious man, responsible. His students call him The Cruel Doctor Frost not because he's unkind, but because of his unwavering, ice-cold composure. As a psychiatrist, he values sanity. And sanity can be found in work, restraint, and self-control.
Not many know of that one time in the past when The Cruel Doctor Frost lost his cool. His ill-advised, secret affair with a student left Simon deeply wounded. Since that day, every minute of Simon's life has been a struggle to remain sane, functioning. He's managed so far - as long as he is needed, as long as his work makes a difference, Simon can scrape together enough strength to get up in the morning and run off the nightmares. But when his friends begin drifting away, his beloved protégé becomes independent, and the man who bereaved Simon of his precious sanity might return... Simon's mind and body stop responding to his impressive willpower.
MirjaH
07/07/2021
I absolutely adore the way the author constructed this novel. The characters are fully credible, flawed humans, which the time shifts in the story only underlines. This is an audiobook that left me with a huge grin and relief - after a subtly steepening rollercoaster ride of my inner emotions, questions, and theories. Extra kudos for the narrator whose calm, pleasant voice with just the right amount of personality and variation, made this such a good experience. (I've had to drop some audiobooks simply because I got too distracted by the narrator's way of forming sounds, pronunciation, or simply their interpretation of how the text pulses.)
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