Title: Warning: Explicit Sexual Violence
Review: WARNING TO SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVORS: This book has quite explicit depictions of sexual abuse and is likely triggering.The author substitutes gratuitously explicit descriptions of torture and sexual abuse for narrative tension, plot advancement, and character development. Not impressed.This is a book of many flaws: in terms of story, in terms of structure, in terms, even, of simple proofreading. It is tedious, it is populated by almost entirely unsympathetic characters, it has nothing particularly insightful to say about human nature nor has any particularly novel or thoughtful way of putting it. Much of the plot is painfully predictable. It is not utterly without merits: the character of Omelda is well drawn and psychologically realistic, if no pleasure to read. But the only reason I slogged all the way through was because I was stuck home with a cold and had already read the backs of the cereal boxes. I can't imagine recommending it to anyone else.
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