Sheila's Reviews > Carrion Comfort

1 star--I didn't like it. Wrong reader!

Dan Simmons, the author of this book, also wrote Hyperion, which I adore. So I was disappointed that this book wasn't to my taste. First, I expected (and wanted) horror, and instead, this is more of a blockbuster thriller--lots of FBI agents and explosions and such.

Second, I was turned off by the graphic rape scenes. They were done by a "bad guy" and not presented as anything positive, but I could do without the descriptions of a woman's fear and pain--especially when it happened more than once in the book and didn't move the plot along. (We get it--he's a rapist.)

And on a similar note, I was tired of reading the n-word and other racial slurs. Again, done by the bad guys, but I found it wearying.

I wish there had been more mental vampirism and less racism! All in all, not for me, though I know a lot of people who love this book so YMMV.