Hannibal Rising

Author: Thomas Harris
Series: Hannibal Lecter #4
Genre: Thriller, Mystery Crime
Original publication date: December 2006
Book description: Thomas Harris shows us Hannibal Lecter as he becomes the most frightening man in the world...
On the Easter Front are all the ingredients to make a monster. This brilliant orphaned child has demons lurking in the chambers of his memory, gouging him with fragments of his hideous past.
If he can confront the demons in his heart and brain, he can find them in the flesh, hunt them down and achieve a kind of peace.
A beautiful and exotic woman takes him to her heart, using every weapon and every wile at her command to save him from the dark, to stem the terrible forces unleashed by Hannibal Lecter's first taste of blood.

Thoughts:
I realized it was the wrong book when I was done.
I felt it odd that we began when Hannibal was a young boy and seeing him as he lives through his part of the world war II.
He faces traumatic experiences but even from early on he was not showing signs of a healthy emotional mind. He was very clever and smart and that could have been the start of a famous person for a wholly different matter maybe an artist yet he had too many dark thoughts inside his mind by the time he was old enough to make his own personality.
Initially, he was a young man curious and loving.
He seemed to change as he was growing up, he started to do things and he started to distance himself from everything.
This story was not my favorite, we do follow Lecter but I felt more distance from this part of the story than what I felt in the previous two.
We see him grow up, how he gets attached to those who take him in after what happens to his family. The aunt and uncle that he was not close to before. He does not experience a heartwarming welcome but then again he does not look for one.
The young man they take in is broken. HE comes out of his shell but healing is far from him. Until he doesn't remember his past he never stops looking for it, for that knowledge and the revenge that started his downfall. (I am feeling dramatic).

I did not really understand what he wanted from the Japanese woman who he cared so much about. He obeyed as expected, but his feelings were not just of admiration, at least it did not feel that way, but they were never explored or mentioned outright. 

Also, I started this story expecting something different, I wanted to see why or how he had landed in that institution, I thought the childhood recollections were just an into to the real story. But then we got to the end, and I never got to the part I wanted.
That made it a bit disappointing but it was really my own fault.
By the time I finished the book and realized my mistake the only thing left was to read now the book I had intended to read from the beginning.

This was one of the books that I picked up and read instead of making my way through the ones included in my TBR XD