Review: Strange, but good =}
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2011
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my review.I'm glad it was complimentary, it really wasn't my cup of tea. I had to force myself to keep picking the book up. The characters were well thought out and the story line was in theory good. I think in practice the book lost much of what the author was trying to bring to it.I found it hard to believe much of the book, and without giving the book away and ruining it for folks who might be thinking of buying it, I'll state for the record that that is the main reason I didn't like the book. It just seemed far fetched and completely off the wall. Perhaps I'm too set in reality, or perhaps it's because my career is working with people who live with mental illness. I don't feel the author did an accurate job of portraying or describing mental illness and I don't think he took the time to meet anyone who had any of the symptoms he was trying to portray in his characters. Each character had a huge flaw with their personality and the entire family was dysfunctional and seemed to hate one another as well as themselves. It was very disconcerting, and didn't make for easy reading.I really can't recommend this book to anyone. ={ Sorry.Not so happy reading =/