I originally picked this one up because of the simple but effective portrait on the cover. The premise sounded promising: our hero has seven days left to live and he was told to write everything down about this last week and it begins with something like: "I am not a good man, I am not a bad man, in seven days I will be dead.." I was intrigued.
And the writing is quite good, it is very easy to read and the book itself is not that long so a nice filler novel to prepare for the next lengthy tome. My problem with it was that as you read further into the week of Peter Crumb, you discover just how messed up this character is and what an utterly evil pyschopath he really is and this character I wasn't really prepared for.
Still, I read the book and it remained a quick and easy read but it left me wondering about the author and how on earth anyone could imagine somebody this twisted. I know I could never write a character this wicked and overall, I'm still not sure if I liked it or not. It's a few hours of my life that I'll never get back but it's not necessarily a bad book, just a subject matter I wasn't really in the mood for and the paragraph on the back cover simply doesn't prepare you for Peter Crumb.
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See, now I'm intrigued and want to read it.
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