Review: Not my norm...but
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2013
Holy Moly! I am completely breathless now as I was during the reading of this story. I am a jumble of emotions and not a single feeling can be isolated to describe where I am at right now. I am still trying to sort out what I just read. This story was a psychological thriller to end all thrillers. It was a story of wits battling against each other; a story of individual introspection; a story that allowed the darker, suppressed fears to come to the forefront and consume the spirit. It was a journey from despair.....through despair; allowing weakness while remaining strong; retaining hope when all around is hopelessness. The story was about enveloping evil physically, mentally, and psychologically, while still attempting to retain a fizzier of goodness and light. It was a truly psychotherapeutic process of unethical proportions. It was more than just a story of rape and subjugation. It was about rebirth.The terror in this story is unimaginable but yet, there it was in black and white...sucking me in its maws. I purchased the book several days prior to reading it. I vacillated on whether to read it but once decided, I had to actually schedule the reading. I was not leaving it up to chance for a sneak attack. I knew when I opened to the first page, I would not stop until finished so I allowed the time for a clean run through. Good thing! I was in the zone...just where the author wanted me. Just where I needed to be to insure I remained in character.I will spare you the synopsis because others have done so well with this already. I will say, instead, that you will likely never meet the likes of these two characters again. He's beyond evil and impenetrable, incalculable and unconscionable, insatiable and unpredictable. He was easy to figure out....Nothing too complicated about evil She's just completely messed up. She's the puzzle; fragmented into so many pieces and so emotionally unstable, you would think she would be the perfect victim...and easy to break, which was his intention. She proves to be a challenge for him, the likes of which he has never encountered.If your are worried about graphic violence, which I was, don't be. I don't mean to say he is not reprehensible. He is...totally. But there is so much going on in each of their minds that the physical acts really are secondary to the self-discovery. True, I was disgusted with his depravity; that someone could do that to another human being. However, the writing is so well-done as to give the reader such a depth of insight into the emotions of hopelessness. As the 24 hours unfold, so does the journey to self-discovery and healing for both of them...as macabre as that sounds.I don't feel this book can be recommended to just anyone. Only to those who are willing to set aside their preconceived notions about violence towards one human being by another; who are willing to look beyond the safety of their fence line and experience how powerful our minds are at balancing between sanity and insanity. NO HEA here; however I am completed satisfied with the ending. Though, some questions remain, the answers weigh little in the purpose of the story... they are just questions of curiosity. Truly, a mesmerizing read.