Review: Great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
I absolutely loved Latakia, then wasn't a big fan of Last Day of Summer, but with this one, Smith has hit it out of the park again.  The subtle beauty of his prose and the way he can get inside a character's heart and soul, are amazing.  So amazing, that I actually believed a relationship begun in brutality and violence could end in love.  That is a hard story to believe!  But Smith's extremely textured character development and rich back-stories accomplished it.  And I loved how he used the metaphor of the fence and the forest to express so much, but did it with a light hand.***MILD SPOILER***My one disappointment was how...well, sappy...the book was at the end. The extent to which everything became "happy happy joy joy" just didn't synch with the rest of the book.  Smith was more measured during the whole book, then became heavy handed with the happy ending.