Book Review: Mount Everest (Jim Meirose)

Mount Everest

by: Jim Meirose

genres: Literary Fiction

Christine Zidar is a woman plagued by voices visions and delusions, but manages to keep her “business” together for a number of years, until she is suddenly forced to deal with the fact that her hoarder Mother with whom she lives has had their house condemned and she and Christine are forced with eviction.

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Can I just say 'wow'?  This is one of those reviews that I've put off until nearly (but not quite) the last minute, because I just don't know what to say....but I'll try my best.

 It was so strange, but so good. The author's conscious decision to omit quotation marks really spoke to the mental state of his main character. It was definitely a risk worth taking. The entire structure of the story constantly reminded you that you were in the mind of a mentally unstable person. I could for sure see her degrading, which I think speaks a lot about the author's ability to alter his voice to that of his characters. You never FELT like she was normal (but when is a main character normal?), and even if you were fooled for a second, you were bounced right back by one of her episodes.

This story made me feel FEELINGS, which is what good books should do. While I admit that many of those feelings were confusion (the good kind), the characters made me ANGRY at times. Why didn't they just clean the stupid house?! How could her mother do that to her?? I mean, the whole book just pulls you in. You get angry and confused with Christine and what on earth is going on in her head, but you want to know what the whole thing is leading up to. And let me tell you, you will be asking yourself "??why??" for a few days after finishing this work of art.

Now, I haven't read any of Jim's other books, but I haven't a doubt that they will be as well written and amazing as Mount Everest, even though those are some pretty high expectations....Mount Everest high... (sorry about that joke, it's horrible but I'm leaving it)

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Book Review: Rarity from the Hollow (Robert Eggleton)

Rarity from the Hollow

by:  Robert Eggleton

Genres:  Adult, Literary, Sci-Fi

Lacy Dawn is a little girl who lives in a magical forest where all the trees love her and she has a space alien friend who adores her and wants to make her queen of the universe. What’s more, all the boys admire her for her beauty and brains. Mommy is very beautiful and Daddy is very smart, and Daddy’s boss loves them all.

Except.

Lacy Dawn, the eleven year old protagonist, perches precariously between the psychosis of childhood and the multiple neuroses of adolescence, buffeted by powerful gusts of budding sexuality and infused with a yearning to escape the grim and brutal life of a rural Appalachian existence. In this world, Daddy is a drunk with severe PTSD, and Mommy is an insecure wraith. The boss is a dodgy lecher, not above leering at the flat chest of an eleven-year-old girl.

Yes, all in one book.

It is a children's story for adults with a happily ever after ending.

Oh god, it's times like these that I really just hate this. I want everyone to have good books so that I don't have to write reviews like this! Ugh.

Now, this isn't REALLY a bad review, because I didn't make it far enough in this book to judge whether or not it's actually BAD. For me, it read a little bit like Room (you can see my review on that here), which was a book that I greatly enjoyed! But this book...I don't know. Let me tell you what it's kind of about.

So, you start with these two fifth grade girls in a clubhouse/box, right? They're studying their spelling words, the usual little girl things. Now, I don't know about you, but anyone younger than 12 in a book gets pictured as a baby. Well, these babies had foul mouths and know waayyyyy too much. So, to begin, less than twenty pages in, I had concluded that this book was for mature readers. That's fine, okay, that's good. I'm fine with that, I can live with it. Well.....what I couldn't deal with was the side glances at abuse and...just..I can't even describe the feeling in my chest when I read the sentence that made me put the tablet down and say "No, nope I can't do it.".  The sentence was: "Afterward, her father changed underwear because what he'd worn during the incident was full of cum.".....after beating his daughter to death with a tree limb....wow...

I'm not someone who can stomach abuse, having experienced a form of it before, so I try to shy away from books with abuse as the main theme.

Now, that's not to say that this book wasn't very well written. It, in my opinion, was slightly mature for 12 year old, but that may just be me. I DO want to know what the deal was with DotCom......and the talking to the trees, but I can't make it past the abuse. Sorry, my loves.

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