Review: Didn't See This Coming...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
Emily Walker is a psychic in a small town who consults with police.  Her latest consult involves the murder of a missing girl.  I don't want to give away the plot, so forgive the sketchy details in the review.I'm having a difficult time with this review - the book was well-written, and the ending was a complete twist, which I found I didn't like.  I struggle with giving a lower rating because the ending didn't match my expectations and left me feeling duped, or a high rating to reward the author for high creativity.What doesn't work for me (ending aside) is how the killer gets away with all the killings for so long.  Also, the killer displays an object taken from one of the victims that is coincidentally recognized by another character.  What are the odds of this happening?One of the minor characters becomes a major player in the resolution.  This character is unlikeable and downright annoying.  Again, I give the author points for setting the character up this way and challenging the reader's expectations, but if this character was the star of the show all along, I would have stopped reading the book.  The book also suffers from too much detail surrounding this character - the backstory could have been eliminated and the day to day trivia greatly reduced without impacting the outcome.  I cared so little about this character and found the details tiresome and hard to slog through.Another thing that bothered me was the font style - it was very distracting, somewhat hard to read, and very different from other ebooks.  Perhaps another of the author's gotchas?So I can I can understand why some reviewers gave this book very high ratings for suspense and creativity, but also very low ratings as readers struggle against their expectations.