I liked this book, don't get me wrong. But I feel like I was misled in terms of what I was getting myself into. Based on the back of the book, I thought it was going to be more of a page-turner, borderline thriller. That was what I was looking for. Instead I got a sad, devastating book about 4 siblings whose lives turn out in heartbreaking ways. They are reckless, selfish, likely mentally ill, and their lives end in horrible tragedies and wretched disappointment. There was also a lot of really graphic and disturbing parts of the book that I was not expecting whatsoever and also seemed like they were pretty unnecessary. There were graphic sex scenes and gruesome animal torture that just did not need to be included and that also took away from the story.
Overall, this book was heartbreaking, and I was not properly made aware of that by the marketing or by the book's back. The prose was beautiful and I do not want to take away from that. Chloe Benjamin is a gifted writer. But her work is better suited for an audience that I do not fall in, and therefore this should not have been marketed to readers like me.
Overall, this book was heartbreaking, and I was not properly made aware of that by the marketing or by the book's back. The prose was beautiful and I do not want to take away from that. Chloe Benjamin is a gifted writer. But her work is better suited for an audience that I do not fall in, and therefore this should not have been marketed to readers like me.