Review: interesting
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
This was an interesting story but with many flaws that bothered me.  Although the format did bother some readers, I found it unique and did like that.  At the first meeting between Darren and Sofia, he introduced himself as "Darren" but said he is called "Daz", although over the next couple pages he is referred to as "Dan".  But then for the remaining of the book, he is referred to by Darren.  Farther in, a police officer enters introduced as "Ken", however at one point he is called "Keith".  I found the townspeople fear of Darren and their refusal to do anything about him not reasonable or believable.  When Darren is finally in custody, the police are afraid that they will have to let him go because "no body"....... But, he is suspected of killing his dad, whose body they did find, he was seen with the missing woman whose car was found torched, he kidnapped another woman, and stole and torched somebody else's car.  Then, when in custody and going with Darren to the scene of the crime, the cops did not have him handcuffed???  I mean like Police Procedure 101, duh, no brainer!  And, I did not get the dead mother thing, too much was made of that.  There was more to his madness than his mother dying, he was delusional and hearing voices, totally psychotic, not just traumatized from his early life.  The last half of the book got real slow, and the end where the ghost spends many years trying to find her dead son who was suddenly afraid of her made no sense, why did the loving little boy suddenly become afraid of his loving mother?