Derek Schimmenti Schimmenti itibaren 15198 Celas, A Coruña, Spanien itibaren 15198 Celas, A Coruña, Spanien

This is a really weird book. The main character is seduced by and marries a succubus who happens to actually be a 12 (or 11?) year old girl (not such a nice image there). There’s some sort of evil dragon that has to be let out of a box, where the heart of a dead child is still living with the dragon inside it, and the girl, who is a witch, wants to get it out. So she tries to get the main character to do this for her. And her grandmother is trying to stop her. She’s actually laying in a bed in a nursing home like a vegetable, but her soul is apparently out doing all sorts of important things like keeping the dragon in its box. This is an entertaining book, with thankfully not too much religion in it (as Card is wont to do), but also rather strange, and overall not one that’s going to stay with me.

Very disturbing. However, I would of liked it more if the ending didn't feel so rushed.

Included herein: Salingeresque nervous breakdowns, detailed discussions of semiotics, passages of Barthes' A Lover's Discourse... Of course I love this book. Of course I do.