Review: Cliffhanger
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
This story is about Belinda returning to her hometown of Portside, Rhode Island. This could have actually been a story about Portside, Anywhere. Other than giving the city and state name in the details about the story in the write-up, no where in the story was Rhode Island mentioned at all. As a native Rhode Islander I picked up the book because of that and also that it was free. What a disappointment. There is no Portside, Rhode Island first of all, the closest to the name would be Portsmouth. The story was readable but it seemed to jump around a lot. There was quite a bit of discussion about what had happened to characters way back when, but it is all shrouded in mystery that is never really is discussed until the very end.Belinda, the main character, has a twin brother Kyle. They are packing up their parents house for the house to undergo major renovations while the parents are in Europe.The interaction between the siblings is pretty typical. The mystery that is mentioned is the death of an old school friend and the story about what really happened to him the night he died. A lot is alluded to, but never spelled out until the end.In some ways it was interesting, but in many other ways it was disappointing. One thing that I can say for Ms. Saunders is that the editing/spelling/grammar was a lot better than it has been in other free books. Now, to bring the writing style up to par and she would have a winner.