Roccie Hill

I hesitated a long time to write this review because I've never been sure what to say. On the positive side, Hill's prose has a spare beauty that often arrested me and made me reread passages for the sheer use of language. That spareness is a big part of the negative side as well, however; this often seems more like the plan for a book than an actual book. The characters are underwritten and the narrator Rosie's affect extremely flat; even before her near-overdose, there are no textual clues that she's in crisis. My main objection to the book is that an act of sexual violence by David's father is too easily dismissed, and without consulting the victim; the fact that it leads to later tragedy, while foreseeable, seems beside the point.… (más)