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275 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2016
"Like father, like son."Snatch is an unconventional read that evokes extreme emotions. What is wrong and what is justified is the question. Amidst the bloody torture and sexually charged deviance of the characters in this twisted tale, the evolution of one broken boy is explored. This is not a typical read. Snatch is grainy and dirty and wrong and just like the broken characters on display, redemption is not always inevitable.


"Tomorow at precisely zero-eight-hundred hours one of you is going to die."Ryan abducts four women and uses them to measure the effects on their psyche while exposed to psychological torture and terror. Each woman has a unique personality and life experiences which are explored as the plot drives forward.
"I don't want to die."

"God is always present."In addition to the darkness, Ryan is drawn to the light of a girl named Ami, a tattooed barista, who unknowingly has attracted the attention of a killer. Ami's seemingly normal addition to Ryan's life is a stark contrast to the other women featured in this read. Through killing, coffee drinking, and visits with his mother, moments from Ryan's childhood flash like a projector on a screen. Like a train wreck, you want to turn your head the other way and yet, you have to see what will happen next.

"Lessons. Life is about learning lessons. The earlier in life we learn them the quicker we are able to make corrections to our lives."Told in third person, Snatch was violent and raw. The story arc is quite unconventional. Instead of the typical solitary plot with a "standard" beginning, middle, and end and a "simple" conflict and resolution there are multiple layers and plot lines that are explored simultaneously. These fragmented pieces were, for me, symbolic of Ryan's mind. Ryan is quite the intellectual. He is sexy, successful and frankly, I wanted so badly to relate to him. I wanted everything to be ok for him. His past made me feel sorry for him and yet, did it justify his actions? Because I do not live in an asylum (as of right now while I am writing this review), I could not possibly relate to him. I could only sit back and act as a witness to the horror and sexual deviance.
"To live or to die. Choices and lessons."Ryan is the clear anti-hero in this story and the females are all secondary characters. (This is just another clever element of this read.) It is natural for a reader to connect and clearly identify the "hero" and "heroine" in the story. That is not possible to do in this read. Ryan remains the central character in this story. Everyone else is just one piece of HIS broken story. Simply stated: this is not a typical "Stockholm love story" where the characters miraculously overcome torture and death and make a life for themselves on the beach of an exotic island at the end. (There is absolutely nothing wrong with those stories. In fact, I like them.) If that is what you are hoping for while reading this book, you will be greatly disappointed in the end. Instead, you can expect blood, violence, psychological warfare, and some amped up sex that will either make you sick to your stomach or turn you on in the sickest possible way.










People with wxtremely low self-esteem, however, can be persuaded by a much stronger person to do what would normally be out of range for them to do - if left to their own devices.
For a person to willfully give up living would be difficult if not close to impossible. Naturally, a person will try to survive under any or all circumstances - it is human nature.
Simple times provided simple pleasures and learned lessons. Pleasures now came with a greater degree of difficulty. With each day that passed, his pleasures became more difficult to obtain. The lessons he learned as a child, however, formed him into the man he was today.

"God gives us all kinds of things on this earth, and some are beautiful and some aren't. But everything has a purpose."
All people are beautiful in some way.

"Check please."


