So let me just start by saying that I tried to read this book as a teenager in the nineties and I just could not get through it. This book is vulgar and obscene and would probably offend a large portion of society. It’s no wonder that as a young woman who was always looking for the beauty in everything I found this book a little too extreme for my liking.
Now, as a woman in her forties, I found it a little more tolerable to read…. I actually really liked it. I thought the story was so interesting and nostalgic. There was not a character that I came across in this story that I did not instantly want to know more about. The author’s descriptions and details of the club scene and the gothic club kids really took me back to an era long ago. I remembered so many of these little details as I read this book and wondered how many of these things I had encountered because this book existed first and was later copied by the people and places I spent my time with in those days.
There are some definite areas of the book that I think were put in for shock value and I recognized them and accepted them as that but overall this book was just so entrancing. I could not wait to see the date of every character and was not disappointed by the ending. I wish the author had made a sequel but that just wasn’t in the cards for this particular novel.
Love Love Love .
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