Review: Spooky realistic supernatural
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2012
While the first part of the book was a little slow (there was a lot of effort put into setting up the scene and the characters, which bogged down the story a bit), once we get more action, the story practically flies.Mary, raised by her grandmother, and her cousin Andy are left in a house filled with evil after their grandmother collapses and is taken to the hospital. Evil is invading Mary's life - she has awoken the shadows of the world, and now she must beat them back.Mary is a believable teenager, with her first major crush and her best friend. Andy seems a fairly typical good guy, who loves his cousin and grandmother, and has some unresolved issues (don't we all...). The grandmother, especially in the chapters from her point of view (there were two or three) seems a bit cuckoo, but desperately loves her grandbabies.The supernatural aspects of the story were wonderfully creepy, and very real. While evil does influence those around it, the actions themselves are of the individuals, things that happen everyday already - the mother who kills her child, the successful man who hurts his family. These are real occurrences, but here seen through a dark tilt.Overall, the characters were believable and the story was interesting.