Levi Dawe

The reviews on this book differ greatly, on one hand you have students whom have studied the book and it's style and on the other you have people with a shallow understanding of literature who just enjoy the book because of it's themes and characters, I personally fall into the latter. I had the personal agony of having this book apart of my school curriculum, the overall story of the book is poorly written as it takes place in two character's perspectives, one's story is the present and the other one is a retelling of prior events. One character speaks normally, whilst the other speaks like a wannabe anxious 1800's poet. The "mystery" element of the book is painstakingly obvious and really not hard at all, it doesn't take a detective to figure it out ( ironically the detective in the book doesn't figure it out until late ) The themes are extremely dark and depressing, with multiple heavy themes being included randomly throughout. The themes of the book are novice and never actually ever clear and is left up to the reader to guess, because of this the book can be interpreted in many different ways. I could get more coherent information out of a schizophrenic on magic mushrooms. It's only saving grace is the fact that *some* of the rhyming and prose within the book is quite well done and fluent and use of character physical description is very good. Other than that this book is poor at best and a slug to read, especially when forced to look over it multiple times and analyse, i'd rather be electrocuted whilst being waterboarded than analyse this text again.