Dark, disturbing and a little sluggish for the first half. The second half is just as dark and disturbing, but goes at twice the speed. I'm not sure this novel deserves all the hype it's getting - and I'm deeply uncomfortable of it being about a teenage girl who is brutally raped and abused by her father, and yet it is written by a man (call me sexist but that is just a bit off for me) - but it's definitely worth considering if you aren't put off by uncomfortable scenes and human suffering... which apparently I'm not which is now a little yep, dark and disturbing.