Review: Awesome!! Maybe not for everyone
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2014
***** Review may contains spoilers*****Wow....what can I say??In a age when the trend for the captive/kidnap books to involve a woman, this book brings a new twist to it.When you read a book about a girl getting dragged into debauchery, whether she is subjected to rape, abuse, violence, slavery, an over-zealous Dominant, it's almost acceptable. Obviously you want to read about a favourable outcome for the girl and you naturally feel empathy, shock and disgust for the perpetrator to put a girl through horrible stuff.This book is something else. This book involves Finn, a young man in the role of victim. Whether it's because I am a man and found this to be so shocking or whether it was because of the author's skill to make every scene so abhorrent, I don't know.Lileth, was without doubt, the hero of this story. Her sassy mouth, her hard exterior yet her pure heart to see someone's soul. She saw in Finn, not the broken and abused man, not the druggie, but the man beneath the skin. The man beneath the circumstance.Finn suffered in the most appalling way, coped by swallowing whatever drugs he could get his hands on. He had accepted his fate for years, he was broken almost beyond fixing. To him, death would have been a release.I read this book with bile in my throat, a sickness in my stomach and a dagger through my heart. How can people be so cruel? How can people think that what happened in the story, would ever be right? Or Tolerable? Or the right side of normal? Or don't these people have a moral compass?The author wrote each painstakingly abusive scene in such a way that it dragged me in so I could taste the blood, smell the excrement, feel the pain. She did manage to fit in some dialogue between Henry, Finn and Lileth that envoked a chuckle but even those lighter moments didn't take me far enough away from knowing that I would be turned round and thrown straight back into the vileness.I would have liked an epilogue. I would have liked to have read about Finn and Lileth lieing on a beach sipping pina coladas. In my mind, that's what they did. In my mind, Finn became Lileth's muse for her paintings and that there was a rosy glow of an after-horror life for them both.Ms Tabitha McGowan....to write this kind of book, you seriously scare me!!Congratulations on using your words, like an artist would use her brushes, to paint such a vivid picture of the depths of hell