The writing in this book unsettled me in the beginning.  There are no quotation marks.  Everything runs together.  But it ended up suiting the story really, really well.  The style was simple and powerful, and the characters were written in the same way.  Also, it didn’t feel like a single word was wasted.  Which can’t be said for all books.

I had a hard time choosing between three, four or five stars.  I think the way that the style worked so very well with the story was amazing,  but I didn’t actually REALLY like the book.  That might be down to the subject matter though, I think it’s impossible to really like a story like this.  It’s depressing, and so foreign to me.  Also,  maybe because of the simple writing that I actually liked so much, I felt like I never really knew the characters.

A question, though, for those who’ve read it.  What kind of disabled were Betty and Luther?  Maybe because I didn’t read the first book, but I didn’t get them at all.  Were they mentally disabled?  Physically?  Or were they just poor and illiterate without any idea of how to do things better/differently?