Review: When you can READ characters like this, who needs movies?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
Judy Neiman has me hooked and I'll tell you why: she can spin a plot and several scenarios and characters within it and it's so seamless, you won't ever ask, "now, who was that again?" or be backtracking to remind yourself who was who.When the time-frames, scenarios, and PERSONALITIES shift, the writing does as well: you KNOW because you FEEL who Jake is. You can FEEL the shift of when the characters interject what's going on with them such as when Jake is ready to kill and Pearl, in a whole other era, is dealing with the idiot.Normally this 'bouncing around' with times and people would make me nuts because I would have to go back to see what's what and who's who. Not here. Even if I put the book down for a night or two, I was right back in the flow of things.It was also a lot of fun for me to 'visit' places I know that the author paints in such great style according to the periods of settlers vs. 'the modern woman' who is trying to make things right using paranormal gifts she and her sister possess.Loved every page of this ride through some darkness...twists and turns that are unexpected...but then the author shines as she pulls it all together (well, she left SOME room for continuance) at the end. Kind of. We'll just have to wait and see and I, for one, can't wait for the next one!