Mindy McGinnis has written a tough book.
The Female of the Species starts tough and ends tough. I loved, loved, loved the character of Peekay, the Preacher's Kid and her parents. I feel like this was one of those books that really got church right.
The story is told from the POVs of Peekay, Jack and Alex. Alex is the main character, he sister was raped and murdered by a local man who didn't go to prison due to lack of evidence. Jack is the guy who falls in love with her, willing to forget his playboy self and just be faithful to Alex.
The book is raw and, I saw someone on
goodreads call it brutal, and it is. It is real life in its worst of times. But very realistic.
There are stories about abuse to animals, because Alex and Peekay volunteer in an animal shelter, so some of that will be hard to take for some, but it no where compares to the abuse done to humans in the book. This is getting Printz buzz and I can see why.
Full Dark, No Stars was okay. It was not good enough to be good because it was so very, very long. If Stephen King were not such an accomplished and rich author, I would probably blame his editor, but I bet that King doesn't really have to listen to editors too much these days. Which is unfortunate because I would think that even an experienced writer like King can fall in love with his own words so much that he would erroneously think that everyone needed to appear between the cover of his book. It was a collection of four "short" stories, but there was nothing short about any of them. Even the very best one, which I was going to say was the shortest, but maybe just seemed shorter because it was the best, was too long.
