Review: The first (and hopefully only) book by this author that I HATE
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2012
I've read most of Eve Langlais' books, and aside from the fact that her characters seem to all fall into everlasting love within 3 days, I've enjoyed her characters' humour and zest......Hell's Revenge, on the other hand, was horrid.  It didn't start out that way.  In fact, it could have been quite good if #1, there was enough story to allow the characters to resolve the conflict or #2, there was a reasonable end result to the conflict.  Neither took place.  This book condones being treated like trash and going back for more....not even going back for more, asking for it, as well as parents not protecting their children from the damaging behaviour of the other parent, not to mention parents choosing a partner over the mental health of their child.SPOILER-The mother she's never know throws Muriel away when she's barely more than a toddler.  This absentee "mother" makes it impossible for her daughter to even think about said "mother" without excruciating pain, again, when the child is only 5 years of age.  Mommy dearest only returns when Muriel has something of value to offer.....her own daughter.  Then, when Muriel won't hand her daughter over to be raised by the woman who couldn't be bothered to raise Muriel, Mommy Dearest plots to take the child and erase all memory of her existence (although someone gets there first).  At the end, the father who actually cared for Muriel goes happily back to the woman who removed all memory of their "love" from him and yet is angry at him for "cheating" on her....not to mention the woman who caused BRAIN DAMAGE in his "beloved child".  Muriel and consorts forgive everything and welcome the betrayer back into their lives without any conflict resolution.  The final outrage, this was all perpetrated by none other than Gaia, Mother Earth, who couldn't have been a worse mother to her own child if she's tried.