Review: Well...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
So... I'm sort of speechless. This character reminded me of someone. Someone strong I know, who is quiet and has done incredible things with her life that no one aside from me will ever truly understand and I still don't know all her secrets, but I know they exist and I know they define strength. I was the mother, with her worst fears turned reality, but those fears are not my reality, only my fears. And so, this book... it was horrifying real, yet not. It was a story. A story told because an autor needed to tell it and they told it well. The fragmenting of the mind was brilliant and horrifying and stockholmes took shape in my own mind as I wanted them to find the HEA that could never exist in such real brutality. And so...the book was perfect. Perfectly ugly and perfectly right in it's own messy way. I'm not sure who published this. I forgot to look. I do know the description states many reasons for it being 'unpublishable' in the market. But the truth is, it's a story and one that is told wonderfully. I doubt I will ever forget it. It will haunt me for quite some time. The author did the job he or she was meant to do. They made me connect with the character and I couldn't look away until I knew the end. It doesn't matter that the end may or may not be what I predicted. What matters is that I was entertained, perhaps in a grotesque way, but entertained all the same. It was the quintessential train wreck I couldn't avert my eyes from. I wonder... why are movies like SAW okay, yet in the industry of literature this sort of topic is taboo, when what keeps the readers attention most is the absolute fact that this COULD happen? Because the truth is... there are scary people out there who can't be saved. Well done. You have outnumbered all of the villains I've ever come across and I never even learned his name. Five stars.