“Wake in fright” first appealed to me through its title rather than its promised content. At first I found the novel very tedious to read and lacking in the action that was promised by the title but as I continued through the text I became engrossed in this violent story of animal people and animal customs set in the overpowering heat of the Australian outback.
The language, I found was not difficult to comprehend and was simplistic and basic. I feel that if the language were any more complicated than this it would have taken the focus off the storyline, which is at times a labour to fully comprehend. Although as the storyline became more erratic I sometimes found myself lost in the speech of t