Title: The Tearsmith
Author: Erin Doom
ISBN: 9780593874387
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 576
Source: Private Copy
Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could—by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories, especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people’s hearts.
When she’s finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she’s leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is until Rigel—a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage—joins her new family.
Rigel is as mesmerizingly handsome as he is troubled, and he and Nica have a long history of distrust and hostility. But as they come to live together again under one roof, the deep shared trauma of surviving such vicious circumstances sparks something magical, and Nica begins to fall for Rigel’s forbidden love.
Before any relationship can become reality, though, they’ll have to face the darkness of their past . . . and the dangerous stakes of pursuing a future together.
Official Summary
03 July 2024
This all started after I decided to watch a Netflix movie and then read reviews for the show online. And like most TV adaptations everyone kept saying that the book was way better than the movie and that the movie didn’t do the book any justice.
And well one of my reading challenge bingo items was to read a book to movie adaptation so naturally I bought The Tearsmith as soon as possible.
I think this is also my first ever translated book as it is originally Italian. I think it was well translated as the story was well written.
Overall, I fully get why people were upset with the movie they got. Honestly, the book and movie feel like two very different things. There were so many details and side plots that were just fully left out of the movie. I get that it is an over five-hundred-page book and the movie was only an hour and a half. But WOW a lot was left out. I can kind of see why though as Netflix tried to cut the very heavy things from the book as some of the descriptions of abuse were very harsh.
I didn’t hate or love any of these characters, I feel like they were all a little bland and just weren’t my cup of tea but I did enjoy the overall storyline in this book. Rigel deffo annoyed me more than Nica though. He was a lot more brooding than she was.
Overall I would recommend going into both the book as well as the movie thinking of them as two separate things that way you can enjoy both of them for what they are.
About The Author
Author Bio from the Author’s Site
Erin Doom is a pseudonymous author whose debut novel Fabbricante di la crime (The Tearsmith) was a #1 Italian bestseller, selling over half a million copies. It has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her second and third novels, Nel modo in cui cade la neve (The Way the Snow Falls) and Stigma, are also bestsellers. Doom studied law and currently resides in Italy.
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