Review: Poetic violence
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
This was like nothing I've ever read before. It starts off slowly, almost poetically: a nameless woman arrives in town, gets a motel room, and finds herself a job waitressing. She probably has a shady past, but we don't know about that.Gradually things get stranger: growing attached to a family in her motel, she decides that she's going to clean up the place a bit... With the help of coloured contacts, a wig, a baseball bat and a cigar-cutter (yeah, you don't even want to know about that...). Gradually the tension increases, until suddenly all hell breaks loose. I can't say too much without giving it away, so you'll just have to read it and see.While being a pretty violent crime novel, it retains a certain elusive, "literary" quality. The badass heroines never descend into cliché (the little girl with the gun: awesome) and the violence is never grand guignol. I guess it's one of those books that you're either going to love or hate. I loved it.