There are ugly moments, bloody scenes, and horrific acts. Not all the scenes in the book, however, are beautiful. And at the end of the road his wife and daughter sleeping. Birds spoke and half naked-branches shook their leaves.Īfterward Daniel drove home through dark country where the snow had cleared and seed-filled soil lay black and damp. Morning rose up out of the outlying water and through the tree-columns. She drank slow by the flickering of the television and soon she shut it off. The wind came harder now and the thin drapes blew up against Sarah’s chair and goosepimples rose at her pale neck. He writes about this grim place and these wounded and beaten characters with love, making it not only bearable to read about, but beautiful. I found Hardcastle’s writing style distinctive and mesmerizing. “ You can love your family and do everything in your power to make their lives better, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to“. Much of what Hardcastle put into his book comes from some personal experience life in a rural area, a father without a reliable job who fought hard to provide for his family. According to an interview with Bibiolasis, Hardcastle believes this is the key to having the desire “ to fight tooth and nail even if your odds are almost insurmountable“. You understand?”ĭaniel loves his family fiercely. He’ll try to give until he’s broke and starving. “Anything you ask him for he’ll try to give you,” Sarah said.
(Although, I couldn’t help but notice how much beer they drank as they contemplated their precariuos financial situation.) He and his wife, Sarah, struggle to keep their heads above water and to provide everything they can for their daughter. He moves back to his hometown and falls into the world of crime. However, I wouldn’t normally be drawn to books about fighting or fighters, but I have yet to read a book published by Biblioasis that has disappointed me.ĭaniel is a cage fighter whose career is ended by an injury. This is not a criticism – many of you know I like dark, heavy books. Far from “heartwarming”, it’s rough, gritty ( yes, “gritty”), and sad.
In the Cage is pretty much the opposite of the last book I wrote about.
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