Robert Creekmore

The trigger warnings on this book should definitely be paid attention to, even if you’re someone who doesn’t normally because the torture and abuse that is described in parts of this book is extreme and includes FGM. Prophets debt follows a young woman from a conservative town who is found kissing her female best friend and then sent to live with a Pastor who as I’m sure you can guess, abuses her mentally, physically and sexually. She does finally escape after undergoing intense trauma, and spends the remainder of the book exacting her revenge. Even with the detailed and gory descriptions of the torture that Naomi goes through this book had me hooked and I read it in one sitting. By the end of the book I was so hoping for her to get the ending that i wanted her to get and SPOILER she does. If you are strong of stomach then I would recommend adding this to your TBR pile but it is definitely an adult only book, with explicit descriptions of rape and torture, some of which is make me question the sanity of the author, but the journey you go on with Naomi and Charles is incredible and you become so attached to them throughout the journey of the book.… (plus d'informations)

First of all, anyone going into this book should be prepared for a lot of very graphically described violence, including against children, as well as sexual assault. This alone made this book a really hard read for me, but I also had a lot of other issues with the book. For one thing, just the general lack of any apparent editing for grammar/clarity - somebody really needed to do a closer read through of this before it was published. My major issue was with the main character, who is 14 for much of the book. Despite her young age and apparently fairly sheltered upbringing in the 1990s, she borders on omniscient in her worldview and understanding the motivations of the incredibly twisted and violent adults around her, casually tosses out mental disorder diagnoses for people she meets, and then about halfway through the book suddenly has a supernatural companion and magical powers. The satisfaction of her revenge plot at the end was really undercut by the fact that she basically only pulls it off due to the help from her mysteriously all-powerful golem friend and what amounts to superpowers. The side plot into weed dealing and murdering a bunch of skinhead gang members was honestly just bizarre and I would have rather the author spent more time world building and introducing the characters at the beginning. Finally, according to the synopsis, she spends the whole book trying to get back to the girlfriend she was separated from at 14 but not only do we barely get to know her in the beginning of the book or understand much of anything about their relationship, she's not mentioned during the midst of the main character's imprisonment or later on when she's growing up in hiding. If the main character spent any time pining for her, we don't hear about it. The girlfriend then magically reappears at the end of the book (with her own very briefly mentioned sob story) and they're back together despite the 10-ish years apart?? If you're like me and are going into this expecting something along the lines of The Miseducation of Cameron Post meets a thriller, you're going to be disappointed.… (plus d'informations)