Review: Riveting story of survival--dark supernatural thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
PW Houston uses words magnificently to paint the very dark, horrific world of young Matt Steadman, whom the reader first meets at the age of six living in Tulsa, Oklahoma circa 1964.  This dark supernatural thriller, written in the style of an autobiography, will leave you terrorized, breathless, tearful, laughing, chilled to the bone...and thinking.  That, I promise you.A long and difficult, dark read, to be sure, but every word is necessary to tell this story of evil, redemption, self-discovery and survival.  The story is filled with riveting secondary characters and their stories are clearly as important--missing any one of them, and this tale wouldn't be the same--and, page by page, you will find yourself rooting for or cursing them, as deserved.From absolutely gut wrenching horror to laughter to unexpected bliss to unspeakable sadness to shocking anger and witnessing horrible evil, your emotions will play out in this evocative read.  This story, I predict, will never leave you.  Ever.  My hope is that you will read it, absorb it, and share the path of the young hero--as if you might have walked that same path in another place and time.  After devouring every word, I predict you will never look quite the same at the world around you.  As you will learn from the very first page, monsters and demons and angels do come in many forms, and you will cheer Matthew for returning to his nightmare and sharing his story with us all.