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Only this author could make death row an enchanted and magical place. The book is rich with horror. Children are forced into prostitution; the strong prey on the weak. Men live in dungeons and some welcome death when their turn comes. The Lady researches the background of one death row inmate while another inmate feels and hears stampeding horses beneath the prison’s dungeons and he hears little men working within the prison walls. the ex-priest describes himself as fallen.
Why do some people do unspeakable acts? These men were once abused children. The book makes no excuses for the wrongdoers, but it speaks of a society that refuses to take responsibility for the most vulnerable in our midsts.


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The Enchanted A Novel Rene Denfeld Books Reviews

In her first novel The Enchanted, Rene Denfeld provides one of the most glorious yet gruesome tales of torture and triumph that you will ever enjoy. Standby. You will live in the pit, but your life becomes illuminated—somehow.

Your companion in the dungeon narrates. He explains one salvation, saying, “The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place—all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see that truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.” (Chapter 1)

This is from the doomed prisoner who traps you in agony and wonder that are oddly synchronous. Mystery and transparency coexist. He introduces you at the outset to some of your fellows in the darkness who offer justification for the enigmatic title the little men with hammers, the flibber-gibbets and the horses!—the magnificent horses. They are golden and they fly in thunderous torrents trailing sweat and steam and shaking foundations and playing havoc with bulwarks that are in great need of our inspection.

The stones of your cell inform you. Deny this story if you can. You will not avoid it.

First novel? Yes, yes indeed. Bravo! But this is not Ms. Denfeld’s first book. This author is an accomplished writer, not only of books, also of many newspaper contributions. More importantly, she has such a grand scope of human life experience, and she has made damn good use of it. This first novel of hers deserves to be read, to be celebrated, to be extolled, to be discussed—yes, to be discussed—in high places and to dungeon hollows and to all the corners, chasms and crannies of human enterprise that ripple in between. For as this story goes, we learn in pure and painful truth

“The attorneys seemed ecstatic, but they were not going where I was going. I had been handed a bomb to carry for the rest of my life. The bomb was my life.” (Chapter 5)

“Even monsters need peace. Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen—to hear—so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. Then maybe we can stop men like me from happening.” (Chapter 7)

The bulwark is crumbling, at risk of collapse. And we must inspect it for needed repairs before our neglect or thundering golden horses bring it down on us.
From the first word, I was immersed, I was there in this old, stone prison, this dungeon, where the worst of the worst await their death sentences. The narrator is one such inmate, a lover of books and solitude, who sees beauty in this dark enchanted place. The lady, as she is known, comes to death row to get to know the men whose time is expiring, in hopes she can save some lives. This has been her job for a very long time. In hearing about the background of her latest lost soul, York, it is revealed how shockingly similar his background story is to her own, but the differences in how the two cases were handled made all the difference in the world to their fates.

The writing was poetic and actually lovely in describing some of the very horrific things these men have done and are still doing there in prison. The most horrible is left unsaid. What one of the guards is doing is appalling. Our narrator tries to detach himself from it, to escape into another world through either his books or his vivid imagination. In the end, the book is about an important topic that mandates something be done. One can only dream.
5/5

A painful and beautiful read. Probably the single best book I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

Originally purchased as an ebook for kindle, I have a dire need to purchase a physical copy straight away. I almost feel I need to reread it again this second.

I honestly wish I could have just read this all in one sitting because it is a book that benefits from its continual atmosphere but, that did not lessen the enjoyment of the book for me in its entirety. The first time I had to leave the book, I felt as though I had been alone for several months. I literally had to re-sort through my own mind to remind myself that I had clearly been unable to have that occur. It was a strange, empty feeling. That is how encompassing this book is.

I'm not going to give anything away about the plot or characters or whatnot. For those who seem offput about the fantasy element, I have something to point out about that. Our narrator is unreliable and delusional. I have a few thoughts running in the same vein as the non-literal meanings to certain actions and thoughts which you can refer to below.

If this is a new book for you, what I suggest is to stray away from reviews and spoilers and just read the book yourself.

Edit I've had time to let this book sink and simmer and, I can truly say it's my absolute favorite. It has alot to say and a beautiful way of saying it. Generally, alot of authors fall into a pit of pretension and make what message they're conveying in their work, or what their characters are conveying, secondary to the annoyance you feel. I haven't even once gotten that feeling from this book.

Sometimes I'll get random flashes from scenes in this book and think, for just a moment, that I'd experienced it all first hand. And then I realize that in a way, I actually had. This book is that powerful.

But it's not for everyone.

SPOILER COMMENT [I have to wonder that perhaps this protagonist had disassociate identity disorder? There is so much to this book and without a concrete answer to be given, I suppose certain things may just be left up to your fancy.
Only this author could make death row an enchanted and magical place. The book is rich with horror. Children are forced into prostitution; the strong prey on the weak. Men live in dungeons and some welcome death when their turn comes. The Lady researches the background of one death row inmate while another inmate feels and hears stampeding horses beneath the prison’s dungeons and he hears little men working within the prison walls. the ex-priest describes himself as fallen.
Why do some people do unspeakable acts? These men were once abused children. The book makes no excuses for the wrongdoers, but it speaks of a society that refuses to take responsibility for the most vulnerable in our midsts.