Review: Author knows how to write horror, but story was not for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 31, 2013
I read CHILDREN OF NO ONE twice.  During the first read-through, my emotions twisted during the scenes with the boys, but the scenes between Thomas Krieg and Mr. No One left me baffled.  On the second read-through, I understood the storyline between the two men; however, the scenes between the two boys no longer gripped me.I found it difficult, as a reader, to be tossed between the boys stuck in an endless maze with no chance of escape and then their captors.  Sometimes horror is best left up to the imagination and when the author let us see "the man behind the curtain" (WIZARD OF OZ), the mystery and horror dissipated.I think that if the majority of the story had been told from the POV of the boys, then it would have been a chilling tale indeed.  But to know that a man paid an exorbitant amount of money to see these boys tortured just made me feel sick.  That's not horror.  That's a crime against humanity.  These characters and their motives were completely unrelatable and it ruined the story for me.That said, I'm certain that I will read other works by the author in the future.  I didn't like how this story was told, but I could tell from the writing that she's capable of writing good horror.(I received a copy of this book from the publisher/Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.)