Jason L. (Harpua) - , reviewed on 3/14/2010 + 15 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

This book was a bit of an enigma for me. It came highly recommended so I was looking forward to reading it and in fact in jumped the queue ahead of many, many other books and was read almost as soon as I got it. It started off a little slow as it built some back story which was interesting enough. I soon began to fear however that this was slowly turning into a Richard Laymon style story. Sex for the sake of sex adding little to the story. However, I was pleasantly surprised, sure there was plenty of sex (not as much as most of Laymon's novels I've had the misfortune to read) and in fact it seemed to play nicely into the story. It wasn't really graphic and it was actually an important plot element which put this novel head and shoulders above Laymon (I know I'm picking on him a lot here).

I went about 300 pages into this 340 page novel thinking, Wow this is living up to the billing Ive heard about it. The tension was building, the characters and plot threads were all coming together nicely, and then.. just like that it was over. There was no satisfying resolution, good or bad for the characters. it just seemed to end. What a disappointment for what started off, and in fact stayed, a great novel most of the way through. The ending absolutely ruined it for me. Ive got one more Edward Lee book on the shelf that I will read some day, but Im in no real hurry now.

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