Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The story of a female incest survivor written in third person present creating a sense of inescapable immediacy. There is nothing about Turtle that resonates with what it is to be a survivor of incest. This is the book a predator wants to read about sexual abuse. Reviews of the book and the book itself all suggest that Turtle kinda likes it. It's there even at the very end, once she's taken care of business as only a man could imagine she might -- with pages of violence right out of a straight to video action movie. The doctor checking her wounds is "excited by her case and her injuries, which Turtle liked. He loved this part of his job, she could tell." This is a fantasy that makes incest thrilling and titillating. Everything is exaggerated so that no normal predator has to identify with what they're reading in these pages. Exaggerated so no one will have to recognize themselves. Blown up so it is unrecognizable. It's not that we shouldn't have the stomach, the courage, to look this epidemic straight in the face. We should. The story of incest as a mostly invisible, silent murder of the victim's soul has never been told. The story of ordinary men molesting their children and their siblings. It's a novel that needs to be written. It's a novel that publishers need to be willing to sell.