Review: Excellent Understated Suspense
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2010
I mentally classified this as a 'thriller', but it wasn't really - more of a novel of suspense.  There were many threads of the story - a little suspense, a little mystery, a little romance, a little supernatural - and over it all there was a sense of events that were barrelling along with the characters powerless to stop them.  The ending was almost inevitible, although you didn't know exactly what was going to happen until the time came.  But when it did happen, you just *knew* that there were no other possible alternatives.The author made a point several times in the book about 'boundary lands' (places where two worlds meet) and the entire story illustrates this.  The Riverhouse is a place where opposites meet and collide:  good and evil; joy and grief; love and hate; past and present; reality and fantasy.Highly recommended!Note on Kindle formatting:  Perfect, in terms of format.  There were a few grammatical errors (homophones) but they did not detract from the reading experience.