Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Content warning and spoiler alert. I bought this book from Amazon for my kindle kind of impulsively. I'm a seasoned reader, enjoy a wide variety of subjects/genres and usually spend some time vetting a book by reading reviews, author information, samples, etc. My impetuous purchase of this title was due to the many rave reviews and recommendations from Amazon and other publications. Plus the subject and premise of the story sounded very intriguing. A survivalist father and his daughter living in the wild outside of Mendocino California, a beautiful location I've enjoyed visiting since childhood. My warning to other readers is this. I had no idea the story would so closely revolve around the repeated physical abuse, rape and torture of a young girl by the protagonist, her father. Not only are these scenarios repeated throughout the book (one with a nine year old girl seemingly not related to the father) but the author appears to take a special relish in constantly describing in very denigrating terms, female genitalia. For some reason when I started reading this book I wasn't sure of the gender of the author. But the more I read the cruel, derogatory. disparaging references to this young girl, the more I suspected this story was written by a male. Apart from these unpleasant, hard to read passages, the book really just seemed to ramble on and on with strangely named characters and events thrown in higgledy-piggledy, Tempted to stop reading at several points, I stuck it out to the end. Partly just wanted to see how this author was going to wind things up and partly because I needed the author to redeem himself. He didn't. I actually skipped through the overly long conclusion to this sad tale and found it to be slightly ridiculous, overwrought and confusing. Book overall, depressing and dark. Do not understand the rave reviews.