telamcgrupp 's review for:

Scrapper by Matt Bell

3.0

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You know, when I read this a few months back I didn't know what to think of it. I still don't know what to think of it. It's graphic. It's devastating. It's emotional. It's a story within a story that you don't really understand (and I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy books most others can't understand lol), but you can't really put the book down either.

I have never read anything by him, but his prose was absolutely captivating. It felt real. It felt gritty. But it also felt unreliable and I was never sure who the character was really supposed to be besides a broken man who had been through some bad things and done some bad things at one point. Still scratching my head. Bonus points for excellent prose, though!