Thickness of Blood
By Kimberly Gould
★★
Lila is fourteen years old living in the seventies her
family seems to forget about her as soon as she is out of sight, one day as she
is out playing she meets James, an older man who loves to sexually manipulate
little girls. George is the father of James’ previous victim and is on a hunt
for justice. On his search, George finds Lila who has been left pregnant and
alone after two years of abuse. George knows he cannot leave her to fend for
herself, so he takes her home and into his family.
Kimberly Gould has written some vivid and highly graphic
scenes, what is a compliment to the author’s abilities is actually what I
disliked the most. The first thirty percent of this book is about James and
what he is doing to a confused little girl. Thirty percent of highly graphic
sexual scenes between a fourteen year old and a twenty-something man. I
understand the need for a connection to the story through the events that have
taken place, but there is such a thing as too much. Then you have the scene
where George and his wife are in their own intimate situation and he begins
thinking about what has been done to his daughter... What? I do think
Kimberly Gould has potential, this storyline however was not a great place to
flex her descriptive narration in such great details it took this book from
dramatic to just weird and disturbing.
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