Realistic, scary, and surprising.
The author once again manages to make real characters, with
real problems. She tackles an immensely difficult
topic – incest. Hopkins manages to show
the horror, the guilt, the causes and effects of incest in a very real and very
appropriate way. She is able to describe
the terror of a daughter who fears her father’s drunken state, because that is
when he comes for her.
Hopkins describes it without being graphic, without being
gratuitous and gross. She is able to
give you that queasy feeling and make you uncomfortable without stepping over
that line into disgusting description and voyeurism.
She handles the topic accurately, and shows what happens as
a result of sexual abuse – from the eating disorders to the cutting to the drug
use etc.
This book is much like Crank and Glass and all the
others. It is terrifying not because of
shock value, but rather because it is realistic.
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