Review: A gripping start but a quick descent into mediocrity
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2012
This book got off to an excellent start. Initially I was just looking at it to categorise it on my Kindle (I store my books by genre), and I started reading... and couldn't stop. At least until the point where Justin left her, and she went down to see Abby and wound up in the pub. After that, it lost a little of its charm to me. The wild woman in the woods idea was great - and I can't deny that she would have had to leave at some point, but she just didn't seem feral enough to me, once she was out in the real world. She talked like a normal teenager, more-or-less acted like a normal teenager and well... everything in the plot just seemed to slot too well together. They identified her abuser. They tracked him down. They caught him. He escaped... And the final dramatic conclusion was a little too horror movie in some regards for me - the killer that just would not die. I'm not sure precisely how it could have been better, just that it could have. All up, not a bad read, just not a great one either.On the plus side - very good editting in terms of grammar and spelling mistakes (I cannot recall finding anything aside from a misplaced comma or two) although the formatting was off sometimes when they engaged in conversation, indenting it all. Odd that.