Renata F. Barcelos
Publishing Date: August 12, 2012
ISBN: 978-1479102815
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Book
Description:
Cassandra Connelly looks like a normal twenty-four-year-old girl.
She seems sweet and shy. She works hard in two jobs and still finds time to do
volunteer work. Nonetheless, there's something wrong within her. She has a lot
of anger boiling inside, and a very problematic past, making her a dark,
twisted woman. She hides her true self from the world, but there's someone
Cassandra hates so much, she has been thinking of doing something unspeakable:
killing this person. To her, killing this person is absolutely necessary, for
he or she should not be alive. However, since she is still not sure about doing
it or not, she seeks help.
She goes to a psychiatrist in order to make a decision: should she continue hiding her meanness and being a normal girl, or should she let the meanness win and kill this person she believes deserves to die? In this contemporary piece of fiction, we'll find out how badly child abuse and a dysfunctional family can transform a life for worse, much worse.
Mean is a novelette (longer than a short-story but shorter than a novella).
ADVICE: CONTAINS VIOLENT SCENES AND HARSH LANGUAGE
She goes to a psychiatrist in order to make a decision: should she continue hiding her meanness and being a normal girl, or should she let the meanness win and kill this person she believes deserves to die? In this contemporary piece of fiction, we'll find out how badly child abuse and a dysfunctional family can transform a life for worse, much worse.
Mean is a novelette (longer than a short-story but shorter than a novella).
ADVICE: CONTAINS VIOLENT SCENES AND HARSH LANGUAGE
My Thoughts:
‘Mean’ totally blew me away. This
novelette was so filled with entertainment. It’s the story of a young woman who
is turning to the help of a psychiatrist because she thinks this meanness
inside of her is going to take over. The story is told in her point of view and
the doctor never speaks in the book. It is simply Cassandra’s twisted mind
speaking, a one sided book. From the very first doctor’s session the story was
crazy. It just took off and was filled with such a crazy story, with twists and
turns, that I couldn’t stop reading it. I mean this girl’s life was truly
insanity at its best.
I read through this novelette very
quickly. I just couldn’t wait to see what Cassandra decided to do.
Then at the end, wow, what a shocker, I
did not see that coming. I expected it to be something crazy but not THAT
crazy. It was pure brilliance, I really loved this story. It was one of my
favorites this year. I just found all of it fascinating.
Great writing and a great job for Renata!
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