Review: lyrical
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2013
This short story is surely not for the faint of heart.There is explicit, objectionable sex and there is horrid abuse. There are death and pain and obsession.All of this is conveyed by a sharp, neat writing, well edited despite the random inconsistency (e.g. from 1999 to 2005 only six years elapse, not eight).Curiously enough the end result is not the usual horror story and I am glad about it as I tend to dislike them intensely.I cannot say what the author was aiming at, the blurb is not really accurate, but we get is a heart-wrenching, desperate love story.The lead, who writes the fictional journal we get to read, may seem a nutcase ready for the cage but he is not, far from it. He has a kink he is well aware of and he is at first incapable of enjoying anything else. But he is also smart and sensitive. He learns. He has this feral instinct of protecting those who cannot do that for themselves. When he finally meets Brandon, a young, hurt werewolf, his love reaches so deeply that he ends by giving up his kink for Brandon's sake.In the end, the one who should have been the monster, the misfit, the pervert is a beacon of love and acceptance.The monsters are the others, those who take his love away and hurt without a second thought.The ending is open and not happy but we get the satisfying feeling that the real monsters are going to face their nemesis very soon...