Review: Sometimes the underdog wins
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2012
There are characters you read about who stay with you for a long time. Characters who find strength to do amazing deeds through sheer guts and willpower.Janie is one of these characters. Beaten, abused, derided, there are only two things that matter to her more than life itself. Her children. The journey she undertakes to protect her children will move you to tears.There is much ugliness in this novel. Much that is disturbing. But there is also much that will leave you cheering for the underdog. You feel her confusion, her goodness and her love. Pitted against evil she does not comprehend, Janie struggles to find a way to survive.The supenatural elements, including the very strange Red Indian folklore, cast a shadow like a shroud across the story.This book is surprising and, oddly for a horror story, inspiring.I loved it.