Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #274020 in Books
• Published on: 1992-12-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

read or regret
I honestly have to admit that after the first book I was dubious about reading anymore. I was never a fan of his other books but once this series gets going it is impossible to put them down. The characters are so real that you feel for them( even angus)I have to date read The Gap series approx ten times and everytime I can't put the book down til I have read it from cover to cover and only then to sleep

Like I said for the title of my review if you don't read this series you will regret not giving yourself the chance to be immersed in a drama of staggering proportions


Please would George Lucas or some one make a tv series of this. Done in the style of the new Battlestar Can you imagine

Your first step on a stunning road.....
O.K I've read this series twice now & I know that I'll read them again.
I'm not entirely sure what I hope to achieve whit this review except to add my voice to the many that are imploring you to read these books.
Yes Donaldson writes intense scenes of brutal rape, yes he writes characters that seem to have no redeeming factors, but when you get inside their heads that's when things start to change. Pity, revulsion, hate, despair, anger, sorrow and more all conflict with each other over how you should embrace these people. No-one can accuse him of writing one dimensional characters.
If you're ready to set yourself on a rollercoaster ride of deep complex emotion then you NEED to get these books.
A final word of warning, make sure you can always easily get you hands on the next book because I imagine that heroin is easier to kick then this story

Awful... ly good
This is the worst brilliant book I have ever read. As a standalone novel it is sharply disappointing, rough, violent and distasteful. It intrigues and questions, but provides cold, dark, violent and disturbing resolutions.

This book should carry a warning label for adults.

Never the less, as the first book in a series of five, I must strongly recommend this book to others.

Everyone I know who has read this book struggles initially - but for the perceptive, persevering reader who continues with the set, a work of genius is revealed.

I have read reviews that slam this work. I can understand them, had I not continued on with the series I may have even sympathised with them. But anyone who thinks this book is gratuitous, un-imaginative or shallow are SERIOUSLY mistaken.

Read this book. Be disturbed. Be outraged. Be offended. Be persistent.
Read the rest of the series and be amazed. Be awed. Be rewarded.