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His Pain by Wrath James White

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the premise for this was actually really interesting and i enjoyed it in the beginning, however it did what all splatterpunk written by men does and just turned into a porn-fest of excessive sexual and general violence against women. what a shocker.

i wish this book had been written from the perspective of the central character from the beginning, detailing more of the horror of being trapped in your own head with nothing but pain as your company, cut off from everything else in the world — THAT is what drew me to this book, the thought of that. did i get it though? nope!

even the element of that yogi helping him get ahead of his pain was okay to me, but once that sexual element came in the book just completely derailed and went sharply downhill.

i don’t even care enough to go into all the ways that stuff was just incredibly boring and overdone.

now another thing that doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things but that i can’t stop thinking about — why did the mother have to have a background of being sexually promiscuous in her youth, and why the fuck did we need a comment of how she is into black men? telling the story from the mom’s perspective generally felt really boring and pointless, but these elements made it even more ridiculous.

adding this to the list of books with really interesting premises that i wish had landed in someone else’s hands because the authors that did work with them fumbled the bag, so to speak.