Review: Graphic, Bloody and Raw
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2012
This is the second book I have read by this author.  The Megan affair is intended to be the first in a series of works. The main characters are a husband and wife, John and Sarah, who's marriage is disintegrating because of his affair with the Megan of the title. The book is clear from the start that whilst John has been unfaithful in the past, this time he intends to leave Sarah for Megan. This is the flashpoint that triggers the violence.The reactions of Sarah to the revelations are shocking, raw and violent. She damages herself and takes aim at John, and the descriptions of the resulting blood and carnage are graphic and realistic. Unlike the previous work by Ms Black, which focused less on character and more on sexual activity, this book almost compels you to examine the personality of Sarah because of the sheer ferocity of her response. It certainly left me feeling a little uncomfortable as I could identify with the intensity of emotional trauma involved. This is definitely a strength of the writing and a good development.The physical savagery segues into sexual brutality almost without blinking, the transition is real, raw and believable. Again the book is graphic and almost lurid, definitely not for the faint of heart or squeamish reader. There is carnage and damaged inflicted on both the protagonists and the fixtures and fittings of the house. This book is not recommended for anyone who is squeamish about blood.The ending of the book is clever, unexpected, but in some ways a natural fall out of what has gone before. It paves the way for the next installment of the narrative.