Flora wants to be a normal teenager. But her wealthy and domineering father won't let her. He wants to keep her locked up in his mansion forever. Her anger and rebellion grows. The sexually cruel and evil ideas of the Marquis de Sade feed the anger and rebellion, which turn to murder and perversion. She is reaching out for love, every kind of love. But it's one disappointment after another. Rejection. Finally, Flora turns to God and finds spiritual guidance . . . but can she escape her dark past?
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...so gripping, for long spaces of time one hardly knows that one is reading. You're just absorbed in it. -- Curled Up With A Good Book
I can assure the reader this is a gruesome tale that they may not be able to put down. -- All About Murder Reviews
Rehak writes in an interesting style. The prose is in a detached third-person with clipped sentences and bare-bones description...intriguing. -- Love Romances
I can assure the reader this is a gruesome tale that they may not be able to put down. -- All About Murder Reviews
Rehak writes in an interesting style. The prose is in a detached third-person with clipped sentences and bare-bones description...intriguing. -- Love Romances
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Flora wants to be a normal teenager. But her wealthy and domineering father won’t let her. He wants to keep her locked up in his mansion forever. Her anger and rebellion grow. The sexually cruel and evil ideas of the Marquis de Sade feed the anger and rebellion, which turn to murder and perversion. She is reaching out for love, every kind of love. But it’s one disappointment after another. Rejection. Finally, she turns to God and finds spiritual guidance ... but can she escape her dark past?
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Compelling, thought provoking, incredible!,
This review is from: A Young Girls's Crimes (Paperback)
This book had been on my to-read pile for a very long time when I decided to give it a whirl. I cannot believe it took me so long to read it! A Young Girl's Crimes is a gripping, thought provoking tale of a teenager who loses her innocence in the most disturbing ways. Flora is a girl who has had everything in life -- after all, her father is wealthy and influential -- save her freedom. Her father is domineering and abusive and does whatever is possible to keep Flora locked up in the mansion. But Flora rebels in the most disarming ways. She seeks love and attention in all the wrong places, only to feel emptiness afterwards. In an attempt to clean up her act, she turns to God to find spiritual guidance and escape her inner demos. However, the odyssey to self-discovery has just begun...I love the dark language in this novel. Flora's thirst for love and acceptance is gripping beyond compare. I was able to feel a great deal of compassion for this character -- even when I found her behavior appalling at times. I like how the author uses elements of Marquis de Sade within the story. Marquis de Sade is one of my favorite authors, and the fact that the works of said author are incorporated in this story made this novel all the more enjoyable for me. David Rehak is a brilliant author and I look forward to reading his other books. In the meantime, I recommend A Young Girl's Crimes most highly. It is one of my favorite reads this year thus far. He uses the sort of dark language that I adore in this sort of fiction. Again, I have no idea why it took me so long to read this compelling, thought provoking novel, but am sure glad I did!
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good ideas; Dead on Arrival,
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This review is from: A Young Girls's Crimes (Paperback)
111 pages of a story with a lot of promise, and evidence that Rehak had definite talent and good ideas. But he tries to do too much in a book that doesn't know if it's a philosophical foray or a television drama. The one lesbian sex scene has its place in the book, but Rehak handles it like Penthouse Forum. 111 pages is not enough room to have philosophy, cliche television moments, and bland erotica.What Rehak shows is ambition in his effort to bring together interesting ideas, his writing style is clear, and he is organized in his thinking. He shows himself as a writer trying to challenge himself and his readers. Lots of promise here, but what is delivered is subpar and dragged down by corny plot twists, and overambition . However, with all sincerity, I think Rehak will improve and his second book should be worth reading.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
I wish I could say something good about this novella,however,
By Joymarie "Lover of the Written Word" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Young Girls's Crimes (Paperback)
like several of the reviewers I found it very manipulated; the characters trite and used; the conversations stilted and I would never believe that people actually speak in this way. The author wrote what could have been a really good 3-400 page book and jammed it into a cramped, almost silly scenario. Someday, if he takes the time and energy to explore his ideas and fully expand on them...he will write a best-seller. As for me, I wish he had taken his time and filled in his outline. I believe he needs to read more, preferably very good books, to see how it is done. He started with a good idea and ended with a not-too-good two hour read. I am afraid that the battle between good and evil cannot be over that quickly. If this author reads the constructive critiscism that is given him in several of the reviews, he just might just be great some day. I wish him the best of luck and urge him to continue his quest, but at a much slower and much more thoughtful pace.
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