Snarl - A Dusky Rose with Thorns
I was lucky enough to get a copy of Snarl from Dead Sky Publishing. Thank you!
I just love John Boden. He's a wonderful human being and an emperor of the written word. I read this book at an interesting time in my life, where my own mother had just passed away from lung cancer. I found myself wracked with sobs reading about the main character, Marlin, taking care of his dying mother, and her own attitude towards life knowing she'd soon be reaching the end.
Marlin is a soft touch. He loves his mother dearly, wishes he knew his father, and has real guilt about his twin brother not making it out of the womb with him. When a girl Marlin's always adored comes to him about her abusive spouse, he finds himself ready to take action and fight for justice. One of my favourite lines in the book was, "I just want you to realize that no one is just as you see. The person you see and know or think you do, has an entirely different person within themselves. Usually, a being of shadow and things that squirm from the brightness of light."
As always, Boden's descriptions employ vivid imagery that you can see in your mind with the utmost clarity and feel in your heart like a gentle dagger. With a long and dark shadow, this dusky rose has its thorns, and they will make your whole body weep.
