Review: Edge of My Seat
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2012
I was interested in this book because I wanted to see how the author handled the cult storyline. In that respect, he did very well. The author does a nice job of laying out how cults break down new members and explaining the psychology behind it. However, the descriptions are sometimes graphic, and there are scenes that are brutal and sickening. This is not a book for someone with a weak stomach.In terms of the investigation and infiltration, nothing works out as planned for either John or Marilyn, which is something I liked. Characters who breeze through everything make stories boring; these two are far from perfect. Throughout the book, they both make mistakes, and those mistakes come back to haunt them. As a reader, I figured they would both survive, but there was a little question in the back of my mind that next time, they would fail.Overall, that plot is captivating, though the underlying conspiracy may be a bit unrealistic. (I am not a doctor, so don't know if what is done in the book is actually possible.) But as a plot point, it was very well done and was a huge twist.This was a book that was hard to put down.