review 1: I looked forward to reading this book for quite some time. I heard rave reviews about it and it sounded amazing. I added it to my Kindle and read it. Now, I am really glad I didn't purchase the print version of this book because a tree would have died in vein, and it would have been on my hands. The imagery seemed pretty much the same from poem to poem and so this made me quite bored, and also some of the things being described were extremely impossible or at least improbable, which made the horror aspect less scary since it would never really happen. Wytovich, in my opinion, is trying to hard, and in the end makes herself seem like a two bit poser without any original thought. review 2: I was fortunate to have the experience of visitng the Asylum where "hyste... moreria" was born. After reading the book, I felt as though I "knew" some of the patients - "realized" what they felt - and "understood" their madness. Stephanie took me deep into the minds of patients who I'm beginning to think may or may not have had a sickness, but survived the only way they knew how to. I enjoyed every twist and turn in this book and it definitely left me with chills and a new found love for the word "crazy". less
