Review: I liked it until I stopped
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
These people are insane!They are very well drawn. The words of the writing are excellent...so American that finding we're in Ireland comes as a shock(one which explains a few odd sentence rhythms already gone by).But, I don't know how this book ends, and never shall.To make a horror film comparison - the fourth time Dominic walks up the stairs in the spooky house when he should be running away with every ounce of strength he has, I put the book down.If you like to suffer with someone who refuses to see how they might be stepping into their own self-destruction you will keep reading where I put it down.Maybe the whip-saws of emotion in the book had already made me too raw to go on.I know that odd Irish combination of guilt feelings and blaming others and hoping some kind of confession might really change things - and all of that is done brilliantly.I know Americans look for happy endings. I know Americans are naive in thinking they always come.Keep writing! You write really well. I want more.I knew a Murray kid. If this book is in any way autobiographical - congratulations on surviving.The kid I knew did not.If this book is not autobiographical, congratulations on your observational abilities and on creating truly memorable characters.I just couldn't follow your hero as he voluntarily went down the stairs into hell.