Review: Transgressive fiction that could have used a bit more finesse
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
I've got no issues with transgressive fiction or stories told from the POV of an unsympathetic narrator.  What I didn't like about this book was the rushed and relatively sloppy feel of it.  I wish the author had spent some more time smoothing off the rough edges -- the whole thing would have been a lot more impactful.The flippant tone at the beginning helps to prepare us for how disturbed the narrator is.  However, since we don't know him yet, it's also fairly confusing.  We're told that Chastity has been hit in the forehead with a baseball . . . no, wait, it was a car.  Is it a joke?  It's just hard to tell and there is no good excuse for that in decent fiction.The plot is creepy and I would consider reading other works by this author.  In this particular work, he went too far down the rabbit hole of having the narrator justify his actions to us.  The constant excuses got exhausting and they wound up working against the effect that I think he was trying to create.I think the author has talent -- I don't think this story is the best possible display of that talent.