Helpful Score: 2
This book was tagged as one of the "most disturbing books read" in a recent thread here in the Hidden Gems forum.
It was not at all what I expected it to be. The main character, a pedophile-murderer, is developed quite well, and his "voice" is quite believable. But the story quickly deteriorates into not much more than pornographic descriptions of sex (mainly homosexual male sex), rape and pedophilia. I'm not sure what the point of the book was, other than to show that not all monsters are dirty old men lurking in dark corners...? The ending was something out of a "B" gore movie - cheesy and predictable. I was much more interested in the warped psyche of the female character, and feel her story would have made a much better novel.
It was not at all what I expected it to be. The main character, a pedophile-murderer, is developed quite well, and his "voice" is quite believable. But the story quickly deteriorates into not much more than pornographic descriptions of sex (mainly homosexual male sex), rape and pedophilia. I'm not sure what the point of the book was, other than to show that not all monsters are dirty old men lurking in dark corners...? The ending was something out of a "B" gore movie - cheesy and predictable. I was much more interested in the warped psyche of the female character, and feel her story would have made a much better novel.
