Nancy B. reviewed on 7/7/2005 + 22 more book reviews

This has won all sorts of awards, but I can't understand why...

I read Gaiman's "Neverwhere," and liked it very much, so I decided to read this one. Mistake. The problem is that none of the characters are likeable, and the author pounds home curse words like there's no tomorrow. Now, I'm no prude, but what does it prove to have the characters cursing in almost every paragraph?

I managed to finish Chapter 5 and then put the book, something I haven't done since Book 4 of The Wheel of Time (but at least I got further along in that book before the annoyances overwhelmed me).

Be warned that there are some sex scenes, although thankfully, there aren't that many of them (at least not through Chapter 5).

Would I have liked this if I persisted until the end? Perhaps. But when there are a lot of books to choose from out there, why should I bother with one that irritates and bothers me?

If you like this kind of dark stuff (it's unrelenting in parts), then have a ball with it.

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