Review: Heartbreaking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
What an emotionally packed story with so much depth in such a short novella. I loved this book and felt so much pain for the character of Christopher who went through so much at such a young age, was mature and strong beyond his years, and adored and cared for his mother as best he could. The writing style of Patrick Cassidy was exceptional, my first novel of his and I wait for the remainder of this saga with much anticipation. Not a novel for the faint hearted or those looking for a happy ending, it may come but not in Episode 1.For those interested below is a little pit of the story behind the emotions it bought up in meChristopher is a 19 year old who is part Native American and part white. He works as a stripper to maintain a somewhat modest living for himself and his mother, while also studying engineering at school. His father, a white man who introduced his mother to heroin, left them years ago after torturing both mother and son.When his mother overdoses his father re-enters his life refusing to allow Chris to take her back to her people for a proper native burial. He does all he can to return his mother to her people to not only find horror at the reservation but family members that refuse to help or even acknowledge their existence.The ending of Chris just walking off into the knight crying for his mother and the anger he felt for all that hurt her and his confusion of where he fits in, the white world or the native world was a perfect end point for an already perfect book.