Author: Sheri Reynolds
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (October 27, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307393909
ISBN-13: 978-0307393906

This book doesn’t even deserve a review… It was just “blah” but for your benefit i will at least write something.

The novel is based around a 17 year old girl named Kenny. She lives with her drug addict Aunt Glo who isn’t her Aunt at all, it’s her dad’s girlfriend. Her dad is in prison (drugs also) and her mother passed away from cancer.

Kenny isn’t even her name it’s Kendra. After being repeatedly molested and raped by her older, semi brother, (Aun’t Glo’s son)Tim Tim, Kendra decides the only way to stop the abuse is to make herself undesirable. So she cuts off all her hair, dresses in layers of boys clothing, and pushes her breasts flat with a bandage. She is confused and somewhat demented.

After a murder happens right next door, Kenny becomes obsessed with the two girls involved.

Clara and Rhonda, two out of town vacationers mistakenly entered Jarvis Stanley’s home (the other tenant in Kenny’s duplex). Jarvis thinking they were intruders shoots and kills Clara. It is Kenny who comforts Rhonda after the murder. The obsession begins.

She becomes obsessed with anything and everything having to do with the two girls. It’s disgusting and disturbing to even read. She talks about how Clara’s blood ran through the same pipes as hers because of Jarvis being next door, she wants Clara’s red Pontiac, and obsessed over where it was after it’s taken away, she actually thinks about going to find Rhonda.. It’s just so … disturbing.

On top of all of that, up pops another drug addict, this time with HIV, who so happens to be the mother of Kenny’s semi little sister Daphne. Daphne is Aunt Glo’s daughter’s little girl. Daphne’s mother high on drugs, shows up at the house wanting to see Daphne and then threatening to take her away. Kenny hides Daphne until they get her mother out of sight. Daphne is the one Kenny is closest to. I guess she would be considering when Daphne was a baby Kenny let her suck on her breasts. She spends a lot of time with Daphne, taking care of her while Aun’t Glo works. blah blah blah

This novel was just so stupid. I could of went without reading it at all. It had some interesting things, but for the most part it was just…. stupid. I have no idea why they even published this rubbish. I won’t be reading anymore from Sheri Reynolds. This one left a bad taste in my mouth.