New York : Ecco Press, 2013.
This highly disturbing and
ethically challenging novel is about an eight grade teacher, who also happens
to be a lovely young menacing sociopath and pedophile, that seduces and
manipulates her 14-year-old male students.
"In slaking her sexual
thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a
monstress of pure motivation. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and
cares little for anything but her pleasure." (publishers note)
What makes this so unsettling is
that the author created a character so perfectly that is completely without
morality, plotting and planning her to take advantage of young victims and will
manipulate and hurt anyone to get what she wants which is her sexual
gratification. To add to the disturbing nature of this work, it is even based
on a true case in America where a teacher seduced her young students. While
this story may make you squirm in your chair as you read of the cold-blooded
mechanical thinking of a sociopath pedophile, it is a page turner and full of
humor, yet very disturbing.
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