Review: interesting premise...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2012
This is an interesting take on soul catchers.  Novel approach.  The story itself is one that provoked thought initially.  It grabbed initially as well.  That is all good.  The character development was good as well.  And that is that.The story did drag in a chapter or two with too much extraneous, editorilized detail that did not drive the story, nor develop the character to which it applied.  For instance, "she didn't really even need to wear panty -hose."  Ummmm ...just for her legs being long?  That type comment is usually stated relating to skin tone (nice tan).  But, somehow this editorilization was supposed to flesh out Tina.  Though I am uncertain why/how.  There is word inflation editorilization such as this throughout.Punctuation is very poor.  If a writer is going to use HE/SHE ASKED as a tag line,  they need to use a ? inside the dialogue quotes preceeding.  Not a comma.  Same with exclaimed phrases, an ! is used NOT a comma.  There are run on sentences and sentence fragments.  Prepositional phrases require punction as well, but seem to be overlooked in this work.When only two people are talking (for instance, say, in a car), it is unnecessary to tell us each dialogue exchange who said what.  The pronoun HE/SHE can be used if the writer feels we cannot figure out who is what in a two person conversation.There are tense switches within paragraphs.The story arc was not a developed premise in the sense that it was a flowing process of revelation to a twist or a conclusion scene or book wise.  It seemed as if it was going to be that way at first.  Then, after a bit, the story just became a run to the finish line trying to see just how many bad events can happen to one person /group of people.  It was like watching granny cook.  She never measured, she did not follow a receipe.  Sometimes she just tossed in whatever was handy or came to her mind at the moment.  This book is like that creation of granny's.  A bunch of things happening helter -skelter to some unrelated people that have only the "catchers" in common - until they all meet up at "catcher central " for the conclusion.  It is like a Halloween type movie - details with no depth.  It did not show as a "slasher" or "slice and dice" - it was in mystery-thriller.  No mystery, no thriller.There are detail conflicts - one example:  he opens the window an inch to listen out, then goes on to climb out without opening it further.  Another :  Tina talks to her mother in her introduction chapter.  Yet, none of the characters talk to anyone outside those like them.  The writer knows (as do the other readers) what is meant here, but to exactly state it gives a spoiler.  Additionally, the data read in the paper at the end conflicts.  If there were the three of them home (Tina, mom and dad) why were only two mentioned in article?  That stymies...The book needs a good editing job and some things ironed out to be a good read.  ALTHOUGH it can be said, this would be a GREAT episode of Twilight Zone or similar.  If the author were to write movies this would probably be one for slasher lover's to see.  Just does not meet this reader's idea of written works - regardless of genre.Christine