Review: true to life terror
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2012
This right here is a woman's nightmare come true!  Stranded with no gas and no cell on a mostly deserted road only to be picked up by a "nice" guy that isn't stopping for the gas you so desperately need for your car that then chases you and then stalks you once you get away.  Truly creepy and so real!I found it to be rather fast-paced.  There were a few times it lulled a little but it was during the lulls that you really got to know the people.While I am not a huge fan of first person narratives, in this case it worked really well and made the story that much more believable.  You got to feel her panic and fear as well as her shame and determination.  You're there in her head while she works out her family issues, her desire for her boyfriend and the situation with her new stalker that grows more complex and creepier by the page.While I would have loved to give this five stars, I just couldn't.  There are things that a good editing would fix.  There was also a couple of discrepancies in the narrative like a part involving her dog.  In one scene she's feeding her dog before leaving for a game after school then later that evening she says she didn't see him since that morning.  That's little I know but it was irksome in the flow of the story.All-in-all I do like this book and will probably read it again.  Wonderful debut!