So are the words of Psychopath, a serial killer whose modus operandi consists in kidnapping nice family men (loving heads of perfect families), torturing and killing them, then feeding their scattered body parts to the wolves. Sick, isn’t it?
But what if the men are not nice, nor loving, and they are in fact wife beaters and child abusers? What if these men rape their wives in front of their children, beating them bloody and abusing them psychologically and physically, until these women become so messed up they think the only way out for them is suicide? And what if the children bear the same wounds under their small clothes, trying to hide them at school by excusing themselves from PE? Doesn’t this soften your judgement on Psychopath? Doesn’t this transform the serial killer into some sort of vigilante?
Deep down society has an appetite for the macabre and that makes some of us sympathize with serial killers. We transform them into larger than life celebrities, we know their names, we watch the movies where famous actors portray their lives and we read the books they inspire. Why? Because let’s face it, we are curious to see what had happened in their lives to have led them down this path. Serial killers are not like other people. They lack conscience, they lack empathy and most of them seem to lack a soul. But they are highly intelligent, meticulous individuals, because only a genius can evade capturing for so long. And our Psychopath has evaded the law for more than 15 years.
The passages where Psychopath’s childhood is presented were the hardest to read. And when I say hard, I mean HARD! I could get through the serial killing, through the kidnapping & abuse of Ella, but when I got to the scenes from Psychopath’s childhood I just flipped. Have you ever seen “Room” with Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay? Well this was like the mother and the child escaped the room only to enter “The Burning Bed”. But that was not all, sprinkle that with some animal abuse in front of a 9 year old child, and add finding his mother in a pool of blood at 10 and you get the picture of Psychopath’s childhood.
There is one question that bothers Psychopath: why do all those abused women stay for years with their husbands? Why don’t they leave? Why don’t they take their children and leave?
This question broke me, because I too personally know so many women in these situations (psychological abuse, not physical), and I ask myself the same questions. Why do they stay?
One day Psychopath bumps into Ella and feels attracted to her. He despises his feelings so much, he wants to destroy them and put them in the ground, together with Ella. But when he finds out more about Ella's past. he decides to use her to find an answer to his burning question first. So the hunting game begins. This is the start of the book.
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