Review: What Was That All About? Formatting Is Also Mildly Messed Up for Fire HD.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2013
I was left at the end of Amador Lockdown with a lot of unanswered questions.  The author suggests that I can find the answer to some of these questions if I buy more of her stories.  I think I'll give it a pass.The story begins rather well with a ghost tour of an El Paso Cemetery run by a group calling itself the Paranormal Posse.  Hector, one member of the Posse, is seeing shadows and feeling a bit jumpy.  Neat bit of foreshadowing that goes absolutely nowhere after the tour of the cemetery ends although some shadows do appear.  Don't expect to see the cemetery again.The next part is an unnamed first person narrator talking about a bracelet.  Forget about the bracelet, it's not going to make a significant appearance again either.In chapter two the reader finds out that Hector has a son.  Hector's wife has custody of him but wants to "sign custody" over to Hector because the kid is sixteen and out of control.  About that time the formatting starts to get wonky.  There's a big gap between lines of text at location 124.The Paranormal Posse has been contacted about mysterious goings on at the Amador Hotel, a historic hotel that is being renovated into a museum. At location 138, which is another trip into the head of the unnamed narrator, the senseless page breaks start.  In fact they happen fairly frequently after that.Hector binds the Posse to an agreement to investigate the Amador and gets a key to the hotel. Considering the hotel has been broken into once the lack of security is amazing. Neither the Posse nor the Amador Foundation appear to have heard of liability insurance, which seems odd considering the Posse runs a business involving the public.There's interviews with some people who have experienced unusual, possibly paranormal experiences in the hotel during events.  But don't get interested in any of their stories because they are hardly mentioned again nor are the odd things resolved in any way.  In fact, that's one of the main problems with this book-- the story lines that should combine in a plot are just left dangling.  Events, persons, or relationships are mentioned then never referred to again. For instance what do the Masons have to do with this story-- well other than a bunch of the characters are members?This narrative needs a lot of work before it is dignified with the word 'story".  (Also, ever so often a comma and a colon appear next to each other or three question marks appear on the screen instead of a word. That should be fixed )