Review: I wanted to know how it was all going to work out
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
Horror isn't a genre I enjoy. What I've read is old style, Poe and Lovecraft. I've never even read anything by King. So, I went into this knowing it might be something I wouldn't like. Despite the the juicy gore, Lexa Cain told a good story. I liked her use of language, as in: "Depression settled over her like an old sweater, ugly and moth-eaten, but so familiar that it fit like a second skin." "Its glare splashed across Elan like kerosene, and her skin tingled and burned." "Her southern accent sashayed straight off a Louisiana plantation."I also like learning a little something about Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and Muslim culture.Cain's main characters, Elan and Ramsey, are believable young people each carrying their own suitcase of secret guilt. As they struggle to find Elan's missing mother, they dance a wary dance around each other.My only issue was with the POV, as the story is seen through the eyes of both Elan or Ramsey. Most of the time there was a clear demarcation, alternating chapters or alternating POVs between the two within a chapter. But there were a few places, particularly when they were in the same scene, where the POV jumped back and forth between the two of them which, for me, broke of the flow of the story.But overall it is a minor thing because the question of whether or not Elan will find her mother alive or not, brings enough tension to the story that I was pulled along wanting to know how it was all going to work out. And then... there are the demons, the Soul Cutter, and body parts falling from the sky...