ihavequalities 's review for:

Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

3.0

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I saw the 2005 film adaptation years ago, but picked this up at a Goodwill recently since the plot of the movie had become hazy. There’s an interesting tension in this story. Heim pushes his characters deep into the dark obsessions that make them feel special because of how unusual they are. But as he strips away the illusions, making them more mundane, he reveals them as much worse than they could have imagined.