Review: Not my usual fare & read it thru fingers like a horror movie, vivid and graphic, yowza
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2013
First, I admire an excerpt so involving I cannot look away no matter what happens. And s*** happens.Second, I admire the excellent, taut narration, strong, vivid characters, the complicated emotionally-complex conflict the main characters deal with. The writing is excellent, clean and spare, and packs a wallop. It is def. not for everyone or perhaps most everyone but it is compelling in its way.Third, another review refers to this as 'horror kink' and I think that's a better label for it than "psycho-sexual thriller." I vote horror kink. It's about twisty, incestuous sadomasochistic sexual domination and what the hell is going to happen next to the two brothers.Fourth, the tension in this short section is twisted up tight-tight-tight. Serious discomfort but I personally dislike breaking up one book into several-chapter segments and selling them as stand alone 'novellas.' This is not a novella by any definition so it didn't justify its price for me.Note: I jumped in and read only #2, and found I could follow along sufficiently well to keep up. But despite the hanging in mid-air 'end,' I had no desire to pay for more chapters.