The Sopaths

The Sopaths

Piers Anthony2011
Killing children is an ugly business, but the alternative is so much uglier. Abner Slate just watched his five-year-old daughter, Olive, kill his wife and son. Olive is a sopath. Born without souls, sopaths are children who will lie, cheat, rape, and murder to get what they want. There's one in every family these days, destroying America's heartland from within. After murdering his daughter in self-defense, Abner is taken in by a secret network of sopath victims called Pariah. Through Pariah, he meets other sopath victims who band together to form a temporary nuclear family. But the sopath threat is getting worse, and soon their quaint little neighborhood is overrun by murderous, drug-running children. Now, on a mission for Pariah, Abner and his makeshift family must travel across the country to a mysterious town that contains a secret powerful enough to stop the sopath crisis. Instead, they find the most seductive and ruthless sopath of all. Her name is Autopsy, and she would like to add Abner to her slave collection. The old morality is dead. Now the sopaths will stalk the earth.
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Christina Baltimore @baltimore
1 star
Oct 1, 2021

I hate writing reviews like this one. This book was just a mess. The subject matter and events in the book did not offend me as it seems to have with other readers. It was more bizarre and contradictory than disturbing to me. The sopath's nature is reiterated numerous times but that ends up being all of them except this one sopath's. That one apparently is different. Some aspects of the book just don't add up. I could imagine the basis of the story, in another author's hands, as a successful storyline. Some other parts are just never explained. The writing is also just bad and unbelievable. The nature of the humans in this book is also rediculous. People don't act the way these characters do. It was a waste of time.

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Maria Banning@bfmomma
5 stars
Jul 8, 2022