Review: "Though the author is a believer in happy endings..." ??
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
:( :( :(  Not for enjoyers of fairytales, romances, or general happiness. Sensitive persons really shouldn't read this. Trudging through the gutter of continuous rape, torture, betrayal, murder, and disappointment, only to have the only silver lining extinguished within the last few pages, why should I care to follow the protagonist further into the desert wasteland of the aftermath? The novel plunges you to the utter depths of ignominy and despair, and... leaves you there. My first response was, rather than what was offered, I would have preferred the hero himself to go through what the victims did, or maybe the author...Apparently now I am to read subsequent chapters of the hero's life grasping for a dim glow in the darkness the reader has been plunged into, to feel a little less pain? I suppose I shall, but not happily...