Review: Alfred Hitchcock is rolling over in his grave
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
I feel like I'm one out of a thousand in that I seem to be one of the few who simply could not read this book. The gory scenes aside (and to me they were really awful) it was the continuous back and forth, and repetition of the event but with certain small events changed that just confused me. I could not keep up nor could I really understand what was going on. This was like a bad stream-of-consciousness writing wherein the author himself was trying to figure out where to take the story.What I DID find of value to the story as a whole were the 'thought processes' of various characters in italics at the beginning of each chapter. In these thoughts we saw the fears, the doubts, the hatreds, the lies, and even the confusion that each was being subjected to because of the event in March.That event was terrible. It was terrible when it showed up so graphically in the first book, and there it had a powerful punch as to why time likely fractured, and affected everyone in the town. In this book that brutal event is re-told so many times it just grew tiring. I felt numb. Rather like feeling the numbness one might experience in viewing so much violence in a movie, or on tv. It's not so much nauseating as it is just one more example of the violence that crops up in our entertainment these days that it now has a valid name: torture porn.At 56% in this Kindle book I just quit as I could not take another scene of blood, guts, and falling teeth.Since I have the third book in this trilogy (bought it) I will start reading it in hopes of discovering how this awful story ends. I want to know if Paul (Alma's beau) and Ben (her vanished brother) will re-appear.I do have favourite characters: Alma, Paul, and Jacker and it is for them that I am still curious as to how this turns out.A word to the author: You are a much better writer than the grisly scenes in your story. I think they are overdone and I really think you could convey the horror that Widowsfield must suffer without having to describe it all in such lovingly graphic detail.