I think the story might have ended up interesting, but the style is so overwrought and the set-up so sordid (the author gleefully describes the lustful thoughts of despicable people and the innocence and complete helplessness of Alex in great and unending detail, a sheep headed inexorably to a most unwholesome slaughter) that I lost my appetite for it.
The story was weird and a bit dramatic. I can't really enjoy the idea of this plot, that a main character, in this story an innocent boy Alen, has to die to get to his beloved God he is obsessed with. For me this story is absurd.
I loved, loved, loved this book. It had such a nice mythic feel to it and the language was gorgeous. Some bits were a bit repetitious, but this is definitely a story that I will be revisiting many times.
A good short read, although at times a bit sad and pitiable since Alen is sentenced to death for self-defense and there's nothing his mother can do to save him.
It's a sweet but forgettable story.
a little too chatty but still very goode HEA is quite unusual but it worked well.
2 stars exlusively for the writing style.Otherwise this a horror story and aptly titled so not my cup of tea.