Review: Honest
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
This could benefit from an edit. There were so many typos and the author tried too hard with the language. There were so many cases where a more common word would have expressed his meaning much more succinctly. The book reads like a lot of memoirs do by men who have been in prison and spend a lot of time with their Scrabble dictionary. That's not meant as a slight, it is what it is and produces a lot of the same language rhythms and word choices.For all of that, I found the first part to be very realistic. The second part with the daughter's story, not so much. Hers, I could buy... but the mother's behavior was completely opposite some where she started without an explanation to the reader why that happened. The father's ending, also not believable. But it's possible I've just lived in this kind of world for too long for any kind of suspension of disbelief.I will give the author kudos because I've read a lot of these novels where it looks like it's not tackling dark subject matter at all, but undercover kiddie porn. This did not read that way at all and was very honest.