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I was ready to like the book from the beginning but it lost its momentum in the middle straight toward the end, where it wrapped up in a tidy few pages. I found it a frustrating end for an invested reader.

There were some small notes scribbled on the last page of my copy from its previous owner which I will quote here as part of my ditto: "When I was small, skinned my knees, and they were red and raw and seeping blood, and sand got in the wound, or medicine was applied to it. Reading this book is like a sore throat."

Read this on my daughter's recommendation that she loved it; I found it initially very hard to accept the general premise or to empathize with any of the characters, but it did grow on me. Would not have been my choice if not so highly recommended.

I really enjoyed this book. It wasn't a "Nice" book, but the story was fascinatingly written, almost like watching a train wreck. You knew where it was going, but you couldn't stop looking. It was so well-written that at times I could have just strangled the characters for behaving the way you knew they were going to.

This book is super compelling and complex. It takes you to another world that is both eerie and captivating. I highly recommend it if you enjoy exploring people's motivates to do bad things and if you don't mind escaping to a dark place.

Very odd book, good but off the wall! I read it about 10 years ago and I still think about it fairly often.. kinda scary!

This book has only gotten better as it has 'sunk in' over the weeks since I've read it. I picked it up because I've been reading a lot about apotemnophilia (individuals with this condition seek out voluntary amputation of limbs that they don't feel belong to their body) and I'd heard mention that this fictional work touched upon it. Indeed it does, peripherally, and the characters are brilliantly written, to the point where I found I missed them when the book was done.