Summary: Chastity
Bream doesn't dance anymore. She also can't walk, speak or think. She's fed
through a tube, turned twice a day and left alone in her bed. That is except
for him - the one in her closet, who comes out to tend to her needs…and his.
My thoughts:
With just a few sentences of the summary, I knew I just had to check this book
out. It absolutely sent chills down my spine when I read the tiny snippet of
it.
Man, what a disappointment!
First, it
begins with this weird, ambiguous introduction about an invalid (I’m assuming
that was this girl, Chastity.) Then it goes off on naming a whole bunch of
characters you don’t really get to know; hell, you don’t even know the boy—the one
who’s telling this story!
This boy
could kind of be like Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye with his cunning
and sarcastic dialogue, but he was also kind of creepy. Who goes around
sniffing other people’s underwear? Gross!
From afar,
he notes the empty marriage between Herb and Angie. He wants her so bad that he’s
willing to do anything to free her from the clutches of her imprisonment. For
god’s sakes, how old was this boy?
He wants to
kill the husband, which had me intrigued. By the time we actually got to the
best part, I was left as unfulfilled as that lady in the bad marriage, although
the irony in the end was a tad enjoyable. Still, I had more fun reading the summary
than the story, which had hardly any meat to it; this should’ve been a novel.
My rating: 2 stars
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