Name: The Light of the Fireflies
Rating: 3.454545454545455 (11 reviews)
ISBN: 9781503933545

Paul Pen

The Light of the Fireflies

Escuché que Paul Pen se ganó el apodo del Stephen King español. No estoy muy seguro, pero brutal con esta novela.

Joel Mendoza Sanchez 

Naty Corbett

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           [Spoilers ahead]

I am happy I did not have to pay for this book. The premise of the book was interesting and had promise, but as the story unfolded I just felt disgust and contempt for the people in the book. Mainly disgust at what I was reading. The family is horrible and the treatment of the daughter as the root of all their problems stems from age old trope of women being the cause. The rape of her by her brother who has mental issues is terrible, but what is worse is how they take it out on her just reeks of rape culture. Then the repeated rape by the mentally handicapped brother of an injured woman who later succumbs to her injuries took my disgust to a whole new level. I only kept reading hoping the protagonist and his sister would escape only to be disappointed in the end. It turns out the author ends up trying to justify the family's horrible decision making and re-enforcing the blame on the sister who is killed off seemingly only to let everyone else live happily ever after.

The Light of the Fireflies

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