Review: Charlie keeps it real
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
Charlie lives in the man's world of long haul trucking, she knows the ropes, learned the hard way, dysfunctional home, on her own at an early age. Charlie appealed to me simply because she's so human, basically average, slightly overweight, but truck drivers often are. Not a lot of opportunities to exercise seated behind the steering wheel for hours and hours on end. They don't get a lot of good sleep, they drive all times of the day and night under the most adverse of conditions.When Charlie stops to rescue a little dog, then rolls her rig to avoid a head-on collision, her world begins to go more than a little sideways--it is literally turned upside down. Charlie, in her truck, hanging upside down, needs rescuing. Instead two men with guns show up and she figures she's dead, or about to wish that she were. Then the men see the birthmark on her neck. Instead of killing her, Charlie and her little dog are abducted. Taken by gunpoint, to a compound housing an ancient order of modern day crusaders who's foe are, well it's hard to say what they are, they are shadows who feed off of heat, electrical currents and they have tremendous capacity to destroy.The character, Charlie keeps it real, grounded, while everything around Charlie is fantastic, unfathomable. And dog-gone-it, Ms. Violante left me hanging, I still don't know if Charlie is really a Lighthouse or a Lilly. What's a Lighthouse got to do with it, or a Lilly for that matter? You gotta' read the story "Birthmarked".