Review: Beginning so spooky, I almost didn't finish, but I did
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
The beginning was so spooky and confusing, I almost didn't finish, but I did. Eventually the individual stories all came together and the book took off.Abuse as a child does not necessarily produce a serial murderer. The author here wrote that Tim, the horrendous perpetrator, had "an ego the size of the universe," but never wrote how she concluded this fact. At least, I never saw how that could be true. The one scene when Sarah was conducting a therapy session with Crissie, the protagonist, was interesting and well done. But pointing out human emotions such as anger, disgust, desperation, and sadness ("cocktail of emotions") does not mean that this is a psychological thriller. Yes, individual characters do experience these emotions, but the facts call forth those emotions, not psychological analysis.Barbara C. Johnson, author of Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice