A review by clariseng
Paul by Daisy Lafarge

4.0

This was very painful to read, most of all because I know that this story is the story of a lot of girls all over the world and throughout history. This story is mostly fiction, but it is just all too familiar. Paul reminded me of everything I hate about men, about every evil their sex tries to pass off as something else— as charm, as vulnerability, as eccentricity. I feel for the main character Frances who is powerless in the predatory Paul’s ability to hypnotise and then stifle until she is voiceless and immobile. I wish I could rescue her. I finished the book absolutely disgusted, murderous.