John Connolly departs from the more creepy and supernatural in this Charlie Parker novel, drawing the focus instead to the horrifying and evil things that humans are capable of. I grimaced so often while reading this book that it almost became a permanent fixture on my face. Connolly is able to capture the depravity of some souls with such a quality of reality that it makes my flesh crawl. He aims to make his readers uncomfortable, and he succeeds.