Vicki S. (curledupwithabook) - , reviewed on 9/4/2014 + 169 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Took me about three weeks to get 2/3 of the way through this book. Although well written, it was exceedingly, unrelentingly depressing. I actually looked for other things to do to avoid reading this book. Here's the problem: the author gets you to care for the main characters (children) in this book and then surrounds them with people who care about them, but who are hopelessly incapable of providing for them. Add to this a corrupt criminal justice system and some sociopathic hoodlums and you have a recipe for despair.

The few morsels of light the book provided were not sufficient to leave the reader anything, but anxiety-ridden for several hours after putting the book down for the night. The worst part is that I'm sure George's depiction of the situation is pretty true-to-life, making me even more depressed because there's nothing I can do about it. So, having hundreds of other books on my bookshelf, I opted to skim through the final chapters to assuage my (morbid) curiosity and will now move on to something a bit more relaxing - maybe a serial killer book. LOL!

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