Elizabeth

Greenhall has a way of writing very unsettling characters. Everyone is just a little bit off, a little bit messed up--some more than others, the protagonist of this novel Elizabeth most of all. She's the most disturbing 14-year-old girl I think I'll ever read. The way she thinks about sex is disturbing, the way she thinks about other people is disturbing, and the way her thoughts are written is the most disturbing of all.

This book talks about sex between adults and children in a way that makes you not even think about it as an unnatural thing, if that's not disturbing I don't know what is. Elizabeth is so different from your typical 14 years of age that you don't think of her as one, but you do at the same time. I can see how someone wouldn't like this book for the reasons stated above, I've heard it compared to "Lolita." For me, It's pulled off because of Greenghall's rational style of writing. His character's deep knowledge of why other characters are motivated to do things. His prose are just so dark and different from anything you'll run into. I think that he sees life a lot differently than I do, and I like seeing perspectives much different than mine.

I didn't really know how to rate this, I think it's 3.5 stars, I didn't enjoy it as much as "Hellhound" but I was still oddly transfixed. It touches on a lot of taboo subjects in a way that puts them in a different light, not a better light to be clear, but a different one.