Amy K. (amyk1999) reviewed on 10/9/2011 + 24 more book reviews

This book was....different. I avoided doing a review for a long time because I'm still confused on whether I liked it or not.

First, it has a really odd premise. If you do not want to know ANY thing about this book ahead of reading it, stop now. MILD SPOILER ALERT:

The antagonist is some sort of demon or evil character/spirit who claims mother/daughter and so on for generations, upon the girl's 18th birthday. How? By inhabiting a male body and raping her, impregnating her with his next victim. So technically, he's raping his own daughter to father the next daughter he plans to rape. Wonderful, right?

Once I realized what was going on, I was sickened, but finished the book anyway to see where the author was going with it. You can read the book cover and know most of what I just said.

Now, the writing was okay. It took me about 3 chapters to get into it and then I was pretty hooked. I could put it down and walk away, so not the best book ever, but I did want to see how it ended.

I did feel like Werlin fleshed out the main character pretty well, and did set up a sweet romance between the girl and her eventual boyfriend.

I was suprised at the topics covered in this book: rape, incest, marriage, sex, abortion.

I think it's considered Young Adult, something I disagree with. It's more like an adult book with a 18 yr old girl as the main character.

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