Title: Beware! Not an uplifting novel!!!
Product review: I really can't stand topics like this and Alice Sebold really takes the cake with her novels. They are horribly depressing. This book in particular. I mean, child rape and murder is such a horrid topic but the fact that the guy gets away with it in the end is what really ticks me off. I sat around with this book hoping for justice, and it just didn't come. I feel like I wasted my time with horrible subject matter only to be utterly let down in the end. Reading this book is like hearing nails on a chalkboard; excruciating. Unfortunately, a relative thought I liked this author and I read her next book too. Equally awful and depressing.
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