An abusive father haunts his daughter and wife from the confines of a nursing home; a couple with an appetite for S&M discover their escapades have led them into something unimaginably bleak; a desperate addict scours the depths of degradation in a nightmare Dublin; an unborn foetus narrates her torturous experience of the Irish legal system; a paedophile acquires a robotic little boy as part of his sex therapy.
Weird was the term used to describe this book by the person who recommended it to me. And dark came to mind when I read the summary. Normally I enjoy a good weird and dark read, but not in this instance. I don’t know what it was but the writing style I could not get used to. It made the stories difficult to follow and the mainly ensemble of unlikeable characters made this book very difficult to connect with. It was a frustrating read for me and unfortunately it has put me off reading any other works by this author.
Shari Sakurai 