Review: This is not good - a twisted case of Stockholm syndrome
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2012
This book make me feel sick to my stomach. I wanted to put it down  and stop reading several times. This review contains spoilers.Basically this man kills the woman's husband, kidnaps her child, lets her follow them so she can nurse the child, and when they arrive at camp he gives her child to another woman. From that time the mother is dead to the child. They let her feed the child, she is not to talk to him, touch him or even to know where he is. I am sorry, but that is awful to read. You keep waiting for them to give her the child. That doesn't happen. Instead Wolfkeeper tries to housebreak her and make her love him. The guy took away her child. He binds her so she cannot touch the child. He basically tortures her.I usually don't shy away from hard sell books or romances but this just crashed way to many boundaries with me. I cannot like the story or even the characters. Part of it because it is truly not that well-written. There are some typos and misuse of words but you can overlook that. For me the problem is with the language. It is clumsy and awkward. The story is told to you rather than experienced through the eyes of the characters and the sentences feel awkwardly put together. You are kept at a distance and feel numbed by it till only the truly horrendous things stand out. There is a definite lack of character descriptions. I have a very vague idea about the characters and how they look and none of the inspire caring or interest as they are vague and two-dimensional.The whole thing with the child is still too much but it could have been made better with better writing, with a path to greater understanding. I see the author trying to lead us through several steps of this. For example there is a situation where she has the child in her arms but he reaches for his new mother and father. It just didn't do it for me. Also the one who is to comfort her is Wolfkeeper, the man who took her child in the first place - it's like watching a twisted case of stockholm syndrome.