A review by caseey
A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates

3.0

This was one of those books that I found to be well-written enough to capture my interest and keep me reading, yet so bleak that it tampered with my overall enjoyment of it. I enjoyed the narrative and the ideas it raised, and I also thought Katya's sense of confusion between feeling repulsed yet enticed by Marcus Kidder was well portrayed. It was very unsettling and disturbing though, to the point where I was asking myself why I was even reading it.