The story and the meaning don’t seem to work together, it looks like the author really wanted to share one of them with us and came up with the other one just for the sake of it. I have actually only thought about that after I read it and started to write this review. Very often we dismiss them or pretend not to see them, but in this story Linda embraces the demon in order to overcome it once and for all. Ultimately what I guess the story is trying to tell is that in each of us you can find a monster, inner dark ghosts if you will. You can still see few glimpses of what you would expect this book to be like, based on his previous work. He not so much entered a new genre within his writing. This book is not what I expected from the author. Suddenly, she was being religious, then she was a good mother, then she gave a blowjob to ex-boyfriend without much thought, followed by her randomly taking drugs (not necessarily in that order). Parts of her were being brought out, just out of nowhere. It felt as if, yet again, different stories from different books have been mixed together.

I did not connect with Linda, because I felt like there was a different main character in each chapter. I don’t read books to read something I already know. If that was the case I would only enjoy reading books that describe what I have personally been through, I would learn nothing new and gain barely any knowledge. The main character contradicts herself many times throughout and I am unable to connect with her on any level, but not because I have never experienced what she’s going through. It was hidden somewhere, under the layers of confusion, depression, pure rage, religion and what not. I kept reading it and I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that there is a meaning to it, there is something that the author is trying to tell me but I can’t get it. It seemed that certain chapters were taken from somewhere else and put into a wrong book.

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