Review: A good story, an interesting author, but a little difficult to read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2012
I received this novel from the author with a request to review.This novel is difficult to rate.  The author created characters that were very dark and complex.  The author seemed to change his writing style several times in the book, which made me wonder if he wrote it at different times.  The author wrote extremely descriptive scenes and I could almost smell the mold and rot.  There was so much abuse, death and destruction and I felt the hopelessness of the young characters.  It felt like every single character was both abused and abuser.  This is not a light, easy or fast read.This story might have rated a four-star from me, just for being so original, except I spent too much effort having to look up many of his descriptive words.  Thankfully the kindle dictionary is quick to use.  The terms archaic and dated appeared numerous times in the definitions.  I am fascinated with words, but the use of so many words I had to define, mixed in with all the vulgarity of speech of characters was so distracting I was tempted to stop several times.In the pdf document, there were formatting problems throughout the book.  Every few pages were words run together or were split without hyphens, or even words with hyphens in the middle without being at the end of the margin. Hopefully it is not the same in the kindle version.