- Title:
- Fissures
- By:
- D.L. Hodges
- Pages:
- 300
- Rating:
- 3
Andrew (Drew) Parsons, the product of an abusive upbringing by his adoptive father, has spent 7 years in jail for a crime he committed in his teens. While in the penitentiary he befriends an older inmate, John, a seasoned veteran of the prison system, who mentors Drew, teaching him the path he has chosen isn’t the one he should continue on. Returning home, after his prison release, with the desire to change his life, Drew steps back into a world fraught with conflict and misery; but also to a mother who has always been there to protect him. Soon, however, he realizes he must break away from that environment if he is to have any chance of success. Escaping his parents’ house, Drew sets out on a journey of discovery; to make a new future for himself, but also to learn the mystery of his past, to find his birth parents. As Drew begins to uncover his history he is swept into a world of lies, abandonment and violence, and the truths he finds are far from the ones he sought.
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This title was depressing: I seem to be having a bad run of suicides in fiction lately! The speech was a little stilted, contractions seem hard for the author to use in dialogue and the sex, especially the domination scene, was off-putting simply because it was out of character (or at least too graphic for the tone of the work).