Josh B. reviewed on + 16 more book reviews
** spoiler alert ** The writing is tremendous.
The atmosphere is claustrophobic and fully realized.
I did not root for the main character, merely thought him mentally ill and therefore a sympathetic character. But as the story progressed I found myself caring less and less for him and more about those around him. His sister, mother, and the eighteen year old girl he becomes smitten with. Especially her as she's taken with him and finds herself in his near-constant orbit. I worried tremendously for her, and the sister and mother.
The author should have introduced the main characters published article, his piece of theory on how the great should have specials rights and privileges above lesser citizens. Even the right to spill blood, lots of it for the greater good, for his/her greater good even. It not being introduced made me think he was too ill to have done it. That eventually led me to believe it was all in his head. If it was a slight of hand, it was a rough but admittedly effective one.
Every character was a good one. Even if they were despicable, they were superbly written.
My biggest problem was the ending. Not because the character took to the bible. That I understood. He realized he was in love and wanted close to him the thing she once owned. It's a means to a direct connection. A connection to her. It was the tease of possibilities to come. Things that could happen, may happen. But you never see it. The story ends with his love sick again but happy, and him clutching the closest connection he has to her.
After all that I wanted more. It wasn't a good enough ending. And for that I rated it 3 stars.
The atmosphere is claustrophobic and fully realized.
I did not root for the main character, merely thought him mentally ill and therefore a sympathetic character. But as the story progressed I found myself caring less and less for him and more about those around him. His sister, mother, and the eighteen year old girl he becomes smitten with. Especially her as she's taken with him and finds herself in his near-constant orbit. I worried tremendously for her, and the sister and mother.
The author should have introduced the main characters published article, his piece of theory on how the great should have specials rights and privileges above lesser citizens. Even the right to spill blood, lots of it for the greater good, for his/her greater good even. It not being introduced made me think he was too ill to have done it. That eventually led me to believe it was all in his head. If it was a slight of hand, it was a rough but admittedly effective one.
Every character was a good one. Even if they were despicable, they were superbly written.
My biggest problem was the ending. Not because the character took to the bible. That I understood. He realized he was in love and wanted close to him the thing she once owned. It's a means to a direct connection. A connection to her. It was the tease of possibilities to come. Things that could happen, may happen. But you never see it. The story ends with his love sick again but happy, and him clutching the closest connection he has to her.
After all that I wanted more. It wasn't a good enough ending. And for that I rated it 3 stars.
