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Her characters are bizarre but believable and she has great compassion for them. Her plots twist and turn and take you right along causing the reader to feel terror, exasperation, boredom and terrible despair.but it isn't really a downer of a book, not to worry.

The plot is tremendous, far from the worn-out tired plots in popular fiction. I could be inside the scenes that she wrote. It is actually amazing how she does this. Janet has the ability to let the reader inside the heads of her characters and at the same time write descriptions of the setting of the story with very few words. I read it in two days time and would fall asleep reading while trying to stay awake. This one is more polished but just as good. Janet Fitch is a tremendous writer who first got my attention with White Oleander. Her last 50 pages are worth reading, Fitch begins to tie the story together, and makes this story palatable.again I did not like White Oleander (though it certainly was a better story and more interesting than this one), Painted Black had potential, had a place to go.I think Fitch needs to write about what she truly knows, these dark characters that she so wants to write about, seem fictionalized. about 50 pages from the end Fitch finally makes you want to finish this book, but by then its awfully late. ambulating from one outlandish situation to the other. I had forgotten about my negative feelings re: White Oleander, but I went ahead and started this read in hopes to be entertained, taken away.the book begins interestingly, and sadly, the suicide or death of a boyfriend when one is in her early 20s is extremely difficult.I proceeded with the story line, at around 200 pages, I wondered why I was reading this.The characters were not sympathetic, Fitch's writing bothered me, as she seemed to struggle to relate to her main character, on drugs, on booze. I knew that I could not compare Jane Fitch to Joyce Carol Oates. A friend of mine loaned me this book to put a parentheses in my Joyce Carol Oates reading marathon of the Wonderland quartet.