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The Fifth Circle Kindle Edition

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Sean is no stranger to darkness. He's overcome a dangerous addiction, struggled with mental illness, and faced relentless bullying by his peers. His best friend, Alex, has always been there for him, but when he falls in love with her, he replaces his online gaming obsession with a possessive interest in her.

Alex's survival depends upon her ability to lock memories of her troubled childhood deep inside her mind, but an unhealthy relationship with Sean causes dark visions of her past to rise to the surface. Sean's obsession and Alex's complacency collide, resulting in tragedy.

Together, Sean and Alex live in a hell of their own making. One will escape at the expense of the other. Both will discover why Dante chose to condemn the Wrathful and the Sullen in the Fifth Circle of Hell.

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Tricia Drammeh is a wife and mother of four children who lives in New Hampshire. Her published works include the Spellbringers series, Better than Perfect, The Seance, and The Fifth Circle. She is currently working on her eighth novel. When Tricia isn't writing, she can be found devouring books, chasing cats, or consuming vast amounts of coffee.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C5HYO44
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blue Flower Books (April 1, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 383 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1484024206

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Tricia Drammeh is an author, editor, and blogger who lives in New Hampshire with her family. She writes a variety of genres including YA multicultural fantasy, contemporary fiction, and poetry. When Tricia isn't working on her latest novel, she can be found walking her dog, devouring books, or crafting.

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Jane Dougherty

A modern tragedy

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2013

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I dipped into this book because I know and admire Tricia Drammeh as a YA author. The blurb sounded interesting, the cover is attractive, so I thought I'd give it a try. Once I dipped in, I was hooked.
The story is told using first person, alternating chapters between Alex and Sean, two eighteen-year-olds at the end of their school careers, both outsiders, both with a history of misery. It doesn't take long to realise that they are both psychologically damaged. Sean escapes into violent computer games, Alex into schoolwork. Sean's escapism is exacerbating his erratic and compulsive behaviour, while Alex's could lead to her salvation.
The device of alternating viewpoints of the same situation is an extremely effective way of showing the glaring differences between the pair. Each is able to understand the other's pain, or at least what is at the root of that pain, but is powerless to see the damage they are piling on top of it; Sean through his violence, Alex through her submission. Only at the end of the story does the reference to Dante's fifth circle of hell become significant.
Tricia Drammeh in my opinion does a remarkable job of getting inside the heads of these two very fragile human beings. While it was easy to sympathise with Alex, I found it much harder to feel the same unequivocal compassion for Sean. He is not an attractive character, but there are times when he shows sympathy and understanding. If these occasions aren't enough to turn him from a bad guy to a good guy, the fault is not in the writing, but in human nature and how it can be twisted and distorted for a plethora of reasons.
In The Fifth Circle, Tricia Drammeh has opened a window into the sad, pathetic and tragic lives of two young people who didn't deserve the way they life treated them. It is a painful story, beautifully written, and despite the grimness, I can honestly say that it was an exhilarating, captivating read.

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Joleene Naylor

An Awesome Dark Story

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014

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First - I LOVED this story!

Alex and Sean are neighbors and have been best friends since childhood - they know one another's secrets and oddities and accept them. Now seniors, they are both struggling to overcome issues from their past. When their friendship turns into romance, their relationship quickly morphs into something unhealthy that falls apart in a final climax.

A lot of authors attempt to write teens that come off sounding stilted or whose motivations feel hollow or forced, but not so in this book. It was like stepping in a time machine and going back into my own youth - I probably shouldn't admit this, but I *knew* these people (or people like them). I understood and connected to so much of it - the small town atmosphere, the floating indecision, the pressures to make a choice and have ambition when you can't even figure out what you want to do, and the apathetic way of being swept into things you really don't want to be just because you're "supposed to" or because you think someone else "wants you to".

I'm not usually a fan of first person present tense, but it felt effective in this story. The back and forth between the character's point of view was also good. I enjoyed getting to peek inside both their heads and understand why they did what they did. I also liked that though the book is beautifully dark, the ending is bright. So many of these type of stories stop at the tragic point and never bother to go on to the part where the characters start to grow up a little, and I was glad to see that this one did.

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Gypsy

not my flavor

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2013

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just don't like this book... tried to read it with an open mind but it just grated on my nerves... another for my DELETE folder but I gave it 2 stars because the Author, Trisha Drammah, is a sweetheart

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Derick J. Smith

Excellent and powerful

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2013

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Despite being nowhere near the target demographic for the work, I rather enjoyed Tricia Drammeh's first novel The Claiming Words. When I found out that The Fifth Circle was a darker novel, less geared toward a Young Adult audience than her first, I was very excited to read it. I was not disappointed. I think that The Fifth Circle is a stronger novel than The Claiming Words, and one that I found very hard to put down.

The Fifth Circle is a novel that centers on two very broken individuals. As in The Claiming Words, Tricia Drammeh writes in a first person perspective that jumps between these two characters. It would be easy for this technique to feel gimmicky, but in this book it is central to how the story is told, and works beautifully. Much of the conflict in the story is directly between these two characters, so jumping to the other perspective really keeps you engaged in the dramatic tension. Also, these relationships are, in some ways, more defined by what is not said than what is said. Both of the characters have hidden motives and agendas, and their inner dialogues often sharply contrast with how they present themselves to others. That contrast creates a fascinating read when presented in this back-and-forth perspective. I continually found myself compelled to go on at the end of a chapter because I was dying to find out what the other person really thought about what had just happened.

Of course, no book is perfect. Most of the criticism that I have about this book centers on the character of Sean. Even though I ultimately liked Tricia Drammeh's choice of first-person perspective, the limitations of that point of view do become apparent in some of Sean's chapters. Sean is dealing with a severe mental illness, and as such, his perspective on the world is very skewed and difficult to understand at times. I appreciate her commitment to unflinchingly tell his story through those mentally ill eyes, but I feel that the character would have benefited from being presented more sympathetically at times. I wouldn't want her to go so far as to make me "like" Sean - I think that the fact that he is an unlikable character is a very strong and interesting choice - but every decision that he makes is so purely self-centered and so extreme that at times he begins to seem like a caricature. However, therein lies the problem with first-person perspective. Perhaps for someone with the mental issues that Sean has, this simply is reality and any kind of self-reflection, or additional characterization would dilute what Drammeh was trying to convey about the mentally ill. I realize it's a tricky problem, but I still feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I could have been rooting for Sean more often than I was, especially toward the end of the book.

The Fifth Circle is a really excellent book and is very highly recommended. It presents a fascinating look at mental illness, has compelling characters with complex relationships, and has a story that will linger with you long after you read it. It can be heartbreaking at times, but ultimately gives you hope. I can't wait to read more of Tricia Drammeh's books.

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