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cathiedalziel's review against another edition
4.0
Dark, gritty, a masterpiece in the underbelly of how low a person can go and how life is neither fair or unfair. How circumstances and events never really leave us and how memories become embedded in our being. How everything is just...is.
A disturbing read, like being a voyeur into someone's dark twisted mind, that they cannot escape from.
Harsh words, harsh writing, the seedier side of living. Definitely not for the faint of heart, the righteous, the moralists, those that pretend the bleak and the bad do not exist, or that all wrongs will eventually be righted. People sometimes exist because they don't die.
When you finish reading this book you want to take a shower for a very long long time.
A disturbing read, like being a voyeur into someone's dark twisted mind, that they cannot escape from.
Harsh words, harsh writing, the seedier side of living. Definitely not for the faint of heart, the righteous, the moralists, those that pretend the bleak and the bad do not exist, or that all wrongs will eventually be righted. People sometimes exist because they don't die.
When you finish reading this book you want to take a shower for a very long long time.
justin_zigenis's review against another edition
3.0
Crave dark noir but have a literary snobbery not often displayed in the genre? Do your synapses tingle at lines like “Totalitarianism makes art into obscenity. Capitalism makes it idiotic”? This is not for the faint of heart. It’s dark. A phantasmagoria of murder, rape, suicide, kink, etc.. it’s a palette cleanser of sorts, or was for me. Merry Christmas ya’ filthy animals.
taratosaurus's review against another edition
4.0
I received this book in a goodreads first reads giveaway.
Have you ever been genuinely afraid of a book? And I don't mean that in an ~ooh, ghosts~ way, but not wanting to take a wrong turn somewhere and accidentally stumble in the grimy world in which this book takes place? If you let yourself get sucked into this world, it'll take hours to shake the uneasy feeling you get from it. A lot of times you won't know what exactly is going on, but that's ok, because the protagonist is just as lost as you are. Recommended for readers who like their books creepy and surreal, and who are willing to surrender control to the text.
Have you ever been genuinely afraid of a book? And I don't mean that in an ~ooh, ghosts~ way, but not wanting to take a wrong turn somewhere and accidentally stumble in the grimy world in which this book takes place? If you let yourself get sucked into this world, it'll take hours to shake the uneasy feeling you get from it. A lot of times you won't know what exactly is going on, but that's ok, because the protagonist is just as lost as you are. Recommended for readers who like their books creepy and surreal, and who are willing to surrender control to the text.
thealliecat's review against another edition
4.0
The book was won on a giveaway on this website.
That being said, I honestly did not have high expectations for this book. However, I am in love with this book! It was fantastic.
That being said, I honestly did not have high expectations for this book. However, I am in love with this book! It was fantastic.
rnmcfarlane's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
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