Green light to Practice Extreme Domestic Violence or a warning shot across the bow ?
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Well i am now just 50 pages from the end of this book, Its addictive that is for sure. If you are the sort of person that constantly asks why we suffer abuse in our daily lives, why we put up with the tedious endless days of darkness without the hope of anyone to shine a light on our mundane and soul destroying lives, If you are someone that yearns for a crack in the wall if only just to push against it to make it bigger then this is for you... The book is as cold as its cover - these characters are the products of years of exposure the degredation of many different lifestyles and experiences - YET - all the characters are different, very different and thats whats so satisfying form the first. Despite the sterile endless bland backdrop of the story - the factory the housing estates and small minded neighbours - you spend you time thinking what on earth makes these people tick...you wind up bizarrely wondering , maybe i should do that too, step over the line, or maybe by reading the book you aleady have in a way..its a dangerous book - you sympathise with the victims and masochistically want to expereince the brief excitment, fear, loathing and/or pleasure they do before they are snuffed out of existence. You look at your meat differently when you prepare it in the evenings for cooking wondering what you would do if faced with a torso to dispose of .. it goes over the edge - hook like and sinker and you go with it.. its an endless spiral into depravity and chaos and there is no way out...the yearning to be part of , to do or to be the victim off extreme sexualised violence is disturbing and it stays deep in your thoughts as a constancy...if you like feeling the knife edge just a breath away then this book will take you there. Strangly compelling is a need to understand the author - this is not a book written from research or even from expereince of abuse (but i am sure that helps to write this sort of stuff!) - she has written this from desire and that passion hateful and spiteful and destructive that it is , hammeorages form every single page....Outstanding work of the darkest arts..
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I wasn't wowed
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I was expecting great things from this book after reading all the rave reviews it had received but I was left far from satisfied and was more than a little disappointed if truth be told.
The basic theory behind the story was intriguing but I just didn't feel like we got to know any of the characters in depth and the storyline was way too obvious. There was no suspense, no twists and turns. Basically nothing to hold your interest. If Tess Gerritsen and the likes are you're kind of books then I'd stay away from this book as it won't hold your interest at all.
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Fantastic, page turning, dark suspenseful novel
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This is one of my favourite books of the year - from the first page you're drawn into a world little written about, the Japanese working class, then the plot unfolds in a graphically (but not sensationalised) gory way as our heroines grapple with the disposal of a dead body and the subsequent aftermath... Much more than a good crime novel, it's incredibly dark and totally compelling. I couldn't put it down.
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disappointing
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I didnt share the general opinion for this novel by any stretch of the imagination. I gave up on it after failing to be gripped, not through lack of peserverance I might add. The characters failed as did the plot in my opinion!
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Scary-good
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...I put this book down out of necessity -- e.g., getting off the train at my station, remembering that I needed sleep -- but could have gone on reading it all night if I could. The characters were eerily alienated in their individual circumstances and yet I found myself understanding and even sympathizing with how they could do what they did. It's a little scary when a book is so good that it's a little like looking in a dark mirror, thinking, who is that person? Then realizing, hey, it could be me. And it's talking about soulmates and murder.
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