Tell Me What You See - Zvoran Drvenkar (semi-spoilers)

"Tell Me What You See" by Zoran Drvenkar is a book that I recently began and have yet to finish it. Zoran Drvenkar is a German writer, and many have read this book, therefore I was recommended to read it by a friend. I must say that the only disappointment to this book is the fact that it was originally written in German and then translated. My first copy was a complete mess and some sentences were far too long when it was easier to make the whole thing in shorter sentences.

I must say that at the beginning it is a sad story of a girl, Alissa and her best friend that are visiting the grave for the yearly anniversary of her father's passing. Her father passed away on Christmas day, and so Alissa and her best friend chose to make it a tradition to visit Alissa's father's grave every year. It begins usually with the thoughts of the girl being displayed and a description of the events that passed and that will pass.

At night, and in the snow, Alissa is pushing away the powdery, cold snow off the gravestones to find her father's as she gets lost, and can no longer find the exact location.

Alissa falls into a subterranean crypt, where in a black room, she stumbles upon a little boy's casket. Alissa chooses to open the casket of the boy, where she finds that there is a purple vine growing out of the boy. The roots of the vine are perfectly caught to the boy's heart.
Alissa then decides to remove the flower from the boy's heart, where she takes it and keeps it for herself.

Alissa manages to crawl out of the freezing hole and return home safely, where she goes back in her bed, the girl then falls asleep with no worries as the plant remains in her jacket pocket. (From here you can begin to find that there is something suspicious about the flower and that something will most definitely go wrong as it has been removed from the heart of a dead child).

The author then introduces the supernatural into this, implying that the dead begin to talk to Alissa, explaining to her that the plant allows her to hear the dead, and listen to their worries, hates and angers. Yet, even if the author is saying something as simple as "the dead are beginning to talk to her, she can hear all their screams and all their shouts of anger at misfortunes" he makes it sound terrifying, and it actually makes your skin crawl from time to time.

I am only halfway through the book and I most definitely cannot read it at night because of the creative descriptions that make it seem very realistic, and you begin to get goosebumps as Alissa's hallucinations begin to take over her mind, causing your own imagination to fly away into darker corners.