Review: Princess- delivered on the disturbing part, anyway
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2013
I went into this knowing there was a 50/50 chance of getting an awful story.  To the author's credit, much of the story was, indeed, scary.  On the down side, perhaps not for the reasons intended.  It's a story that raised many questions for me, and it does stay in one's mind once the e-book is done, but...  About the psychological thriller part, I was left a bit mystified as to the reactions and words of all characters involved in the story.****SPOILERS*****If the traumatic event happened on Prom Night 2006, why does he continue to update the banner every year to read the current year?  Why is this teen's misery and despair so much more compelling than all the others he's killed?  Why is this boy's pain the catalyst for putting a stop to the insipid charade of normalcy the main character has wrapped around  his "family"?  Why would any man continue with a yearly ritual involving the kidnapping, rape and murder of a teenage boy?  Why, if he loved his wife, would he allow her to have sex with a teen every year under the delusion that she was her own daughter at prom? A woman who overfed the girl from childhood to Honey Boo-Boo proportions, causing the idiots at school to tease her and ultimately cause her suicide?  Why does the mom verbally destroy the girl who was just stood up for prom (as the mother had been doing since the girl's childhood), then act like her world is over when the girl commits suicide?  And WHY, for the love of character-based storytelling, if he loved his daughter AT ALL, would he allow her to be raised by a woman who clearly had no interest in raising a child and instead wanted a vessel to continue living vicariously as a teenage girl?