Our Kind of Cruelty : A Novel (CD-Audio)

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Mike, a financial worker who is good with numbers but doesn't much relate to people, thought he had found the love of his life when he found Verity. She was the perfect woman who could make the world make sense, and the sexual roleplaying games she loved brought true passion into his life. But wh...

from froxgirl

Yawn, I'm tired of novels of romantic and sexual obsession. This one is a bit unusual because instead of one villain and one innocent, the object of desire is almost as perverse as the stalker. Told in the first person voice of Mike, the reader must sympathize with his incredibly miserable childh...

from jnmegan

Araminta Hall takes the concept of an unreliable narrator to a whole new level in her latest novel, Our Kind of Cruelty. Mike Hayes is, by all appearances, a successful man. He has overcome a dismal childhood that forced him into the foster care system, and now is a wealthy and cosmopolitan man. ...

from anissaannalise

This was a thoroughly compulsive read. I picked it up in the morning and refused to go to bed until I'd finished. I won't be giving up any major spoilers but I will say that Mike is a great unreliable narrator and his recounting of this tale is consistently darkly disturbing. But more disturbing ...

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I'm surprised more people don't like this book but I think I know why. The ending is really ambiguous and open-ended. We never get a release from all the tension we feel building from all our questions throughout the book. There is no definite answer to the question we are asking throughout the book