Review: nest
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2012
This was a well edited and well written piece.Joel (noted athlete) and his wife moving into new house they built.  The site is near a meteor drop site from five (or so) decades ago.  This is in Arizona where scorpians are abundant.  Evidently, this is part of the wife's overall plan (she has her own agenda here) even though she is petrified of the things.  While getting ready to retire for the night, they encounter a buggie and hear some other noises and investigate.  What they find alarms her due to her fear of them.  Joel puts on some false bravado and we find out more about his feelings via some thoughts of his.  There is an undercurrent to tale due to wife's agenda and we find out what it is before the real encounter in bedroom and attic.  While it seems like scorpians are bad and feared, there is a twist to these presented when we read scene in attic and at realtor's house at end.The author shows interesting ideas, well done research related to plot device (making the devices plausible and believable - in genre where such is often not done or (seeming) necessary due to readers already suspending belief when opening book in the genre), and can write fairly vivid scenes.Recommend author.Christine