Product Details

• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Different...in a good way
I really enjoyed this book. It is the first book I've read of AM Homes. I am not even sure what else she has written. The writing is brilliant and holds the reader throughout the entire novel. The way she flip flops between Chappy and the girl he corresponds with whilst sitting in jail is a brilliant concept. A few things will be said about Chappy and what's going on in jail or his story about Alice, and right when it comes to an area you would like to more about it would switch to a kind of sub chapter about the life of the girl he is corresponding with, and vice-versa. I hope that makes sense, in other words it's like watching a good television series that continually ends every episode with a cliff hanger. It makes the reader never want to put the book down, at least that's the effect it had on me. I would give it 5 stars and the only reason I didn't is because I think it ended a little too soon with little detail about what happened...I thought it would be a bit more drawn out in the end. You have to read to know what I am talking about. Great book though, and I highly recommend it!!

Great if you have an open mind
The End of Alice went above and beyond what I expected when I read the summary. It is very descriptive and not for the faint of heart or those unwilling to accept that criminals are, in fact, people too. Homes does an excellent job of letting the reader into the mind of a convicted child molester and murderer. I applaud her for her research on this novel as I would imagine it takes quite the talent to complete a book like this one. This book is definately for only the very open-minded reader. It is vulgar and often times disgusting in its description, but if you enjoy exploring new and very off the wall avenues when you choose your reading material I definately recommend this book.

Repulsive, Textual Vomit
If Hannibal Lechter were to pen a cheap Harlequin romance novel, this is would be the outcome. The author's overuse of ridculous adjectives and graphic sexual deviance does absolutely nothing to create any semblance of a story. These characters are so ridiculously pathological that I found myself actually laughing out loud. Scab eating? Oh, please. Why didn't the author throw in a farting contest as well?
Not too mention the sexual shock factor is littered with phrases like "moony mounds", "loving piles" and "milky brown suede." Hey readers! There is more rear-action than a Super Bowl Tailgate party. Absolutely nothing redeeming about this book. It is gross, infantile and just plain ridiculous. Pass the vomit basin!