A review by spilled
Ball Peen Hammer by Adam Rapp, George O'Connor

2.0

I did not like this book. I am trying to discern if my disliking is because it's a story told awfully or an awful story told well, since the latter gives the author more credit. Part of the frustration is that it reads more like a short story, full of ambiguities and things left hanging, than the novel-type developed plot I think I expected. But that aside, I didn't like a single character, everything is disgusting, and the abrupt ending left me disgruntled.

Also the cover is not very representative of the book. I hate the cover. I hate her knock-kneed stance, I hate the gas mask, I hate the weird blue color. The title isn't what I would have picked, either.