Review: Painful
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2012
I only got in a few pages before I found myself annoyed, bored, and dissatisfied. The author seems to want to convey a mysterious, wretched mood with pretty little snippets of dark poetry embedded in the description, but it comes off as superficial and ill-concealed. The rush of characters introduced are merely names; they lack an emotional attachment to the reader, which makes the beginning very weak as it forges in medias res. I have no desire to finish reading this, especially after reading through the other reviews: rape, dark, somberness, similar to Maguire's Wicked... No, thank you.