Review: Dark, Disturbing and oh so good!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
I am having a hard time writing this review. I want to say that I loved this book but it just feels wrong to love something that is so dark and disturbing. But if I am going to be honest with myself I really did love it. It was brutal and sick but also witty, sarcastic, and believe it or not funny at times. I laughed, I cried, I gagged. I don't think a book has made me think as much as this one has in a long time.There is no easing into this story, it smacks you right in the face and you are unable to recover until the end and maybe even well after that. Right from the very first page you are thrown into a series of relentless rapes and psychological torture.You learn very little about the characters, not their names, not the why or who behind the reason for these events. While the need to find some answers did cross my mind it truly was inconsequential to the story, it wasn't what the story was about. This is a story about the game that these two characters are playing with each other. The game and characters are written so well, with such intellect. The male character pissed me off with his arrogant demeanor. You felt his coldness, you could picture his evil smirk and you believed every minute of it. The female character broke my heart, not from having to endure the sexual assaults but from her almost clinical numb view on the situation and her life. I wanted to shake some emotion into her at times but then she wouldn't have been as intriguing as she was.Understandably this book is not for everyone but for those who do choose to read it I can only hope that it creates the same level of emotion in you that it did in me. After all a good book is more than just the words written on the pages, its the feelings and emotions that will never leave you after having read it.