Review: A GENUINELY CREEPY "COLONY"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2013
F. G. Cottam's THE COLONY was my first exposure to this author's writing.  It won't be my last!  Skillfully dealing with several fully-fleshed characters while weaving a modern supernatural/sci-fi tale whose origins stretch back 200 years, the author expertly reels in the reader with his rich, verbose narrative.  This tale had me hooked from the get-go and never let up, even when the team being assembled to discover the fate of the missing colony never even set foot on the site from which they disappeared until virtually three-quarters of the novel was over!  That's how good a writer this Cottam is!  My only quibble--and it's a big one--is that the Kindle version I received had countless distracting sections wherein the narrative shifts scenes or persons without any page break at all, making the reader stop--pulling you out of the plot--to determine from whose perspective the story thread is now being told.  A big distraction, in my book.  Judicious editing would have cured that malady.  All in all, however, a very good, complex story told very well!