Review: Loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2013
This story had me captivated until the very end. I don't understand some of the reviews complaining that the story was slow and lagging; I didn't find it that way at all. The author does an excellent job constructing the personality and motivations of the main characters. He also did a great job transporting the reader down into the cellar with Melissa. Some of the other reviewers complained that the author goes off onto pointless side stories. Again, I didn't find this to be true at all. Each of these stories has a purpose, either to bring the reader along with the investigation (who is guilty, and who shares the responsibility?) or to create a sense of uncertainty and suspicion in the reader. Finally, some complain that the author shifts point of view too quickly; however, I had no problem at all following the narrative.All in all, I thought this book was very well written. I enjoyed it for the plot as well as the author's writing style. I also appreciate the author's ability to create believable characters in which the reader becomes emotionally invested. My only gripe is that there were a lot of spelling error and misuse of words like their/there/they're. I also found that a few of the midwestern colloquialisms were misused. But I disagree that the book is fraught with grammatical errors. The only ones I can think of (besides the aforementioned) were intentional sprinklings of small-town Oklahoma dialect.This is the best book I've read in awhile, and I look forward to more from this author!