Review: Scared?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2014
*Given to Reviewer for an honest review*The question that rises is: what would you do if your only means of survival was to kill the people around you? It’s not like you haven’t done it before, so would you do it again?In 13, a collection of shorts asks just that question of thirteen people. What I find so intriguing about this book is that there are no names. Each person is a number, like on a deck of cards. The first 13 chapters introduce us to the characters (the numbers) and the parts they play.I was a bit put off at first by the short snippets of character “introductions” but learned quickly their motivations and mindsets. Ms. Powell has put together a unique story that makes you think of the horrors in the world along with the ones we commit ourselves.