I really enjoyed reading Mimosa, a thriller with gang warfare and a philosophical journey as a backdrop. The main character, Tessa, is in search of her true identity, to the extent of wondering if she isn't the person her detective agency is looking for. In Vincent Gessler's world, when you kill a criminal, you also have to aim at the tank that their clone and those following come from. Immortality is complicated! [...] The novel is constructed like a film. Moreover, all you have to do is consult the appendices with author-character interviews and scenes cut from the montage! It's mind-blowingly crazy... [...] To continue with the cinema analogy, the soundtrack works perfectly. How delightful...

Vincent Gessler's work is also post-apocalyptic yet remains on a very lyrical human level. This stylistic beauty reminds me of Giono. It really is superb. Andre-Francois, 29 March 2010, captainbooks.blogspot.com    There is a bewitching feeling to the whole book: even if nothing very much happens in the first half of the novel, we carry on reading, as if hypnotised. So we arrive without a hitch at the end of this very nice first novel about searching for one's origins, that gives nothing away before the last few pages and has some rather superb passages. Such qualities make Vincent Gessler a promising author. Bruno Para, Noosfere.com   This novel coming out of the blue is...