It's nice to see a male writer capture a woman's voice so well that it's hard to believe a man wrote the words that Lamb did. Still, Dolores' feistiness doesn't make up for the book's other faults. The writing lacks any sort of subtlety: every time Dolores makes a realization, the narration kind of hits you over the head with it until even a six-year-old could get it. It was kind of insulting. Then there was the constant victimization of Dolores by man after man; it got really really annoying watching Dolores hang on to the men victimizing her. She seems feisty, but at times she was so pathetic I winced.