Review: Author seems afraid to go the distance, but still compelling read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2012
Mossiman wrote a well planned, frightening novel here. Without plot spoilers let me say that this is a hostage situation styled terror novel about a family and a Bonnie and Clyde style couple. The antagonists are well defined, realistic characters. If you have ever seen "Natural Born Killers" then you will have an idea of what the main antagonists are like. The family has it's own problems, and that's all I'm gonna say on that.The only problem I had was that Mossiman seemed to have held back several times. Her antagonists seemed to have developed consciences several times regarding the child. Realistically the antagonists would have been uncaring if the child witnessed a rape; however, while the author kept the trauma to the child on a down-low, there is enough violence and a high enough body count to satisfy any horror/suspense junkie.