Review: Unpleasantly Creepy
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2011
This book freaked me out from the get go. I'm not sure why, actually, it was very reminiscent of some work by Stephen King I rather liked. But King's work has almost always been good creepy to me, and this, this was unpleasant creepy. Maybe it was the immediate Catholic overtones, maybe it was the immediate introduction of an aztec-like language. I'm not sure, but this gave me the willies and I had to put it down.  Eerie like the Da Vinci code, but more greasy, queasy. I felt like the author was breathing over my shoulder heavily while watching me with rapt and vulturous intent every word I took in.And I'm not sure why.Now maybe that is someone else's cup of tea. If that sounds good to you, by all means, buy the book.I found it off-putting. There was just something about it... the main character seems 14ish, but is supposed to be 16 or 15, I think. And yet, still uses child-like words and archaic romance-novel style words to describe certain things. It did work with the book, because the child was supposed to have been in Juvenile detention/isolation for some time, but it squicked me out, and fast.