Review: DID I READ THE SAME BOOK?????
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
This is a novella; the thing here is that it was written into a book from a script the author wrote which many times works and many times doesn’t (at least not really well). This instance was no different, it was a great premise, a good story but the execution fell a bit short for me, BUT I don’t really think I was the target audience being a few years past my 20s (OK, maybe a LOT of years past).The point is, this is a story that would have made a good episode of the Twilight Zone, but fell a bit flat as a novella for me. I won’t say a lot bad about it because I did enjoy the story. I was starting to actually connect with the characters, and then it was over ….. seriously????, I turned the page expecting the next chapter and the page said “THE END.”Considering this story was telling you where most, if not all, evil in the world was coming from it had a pretty broad basis for stories. It was never going to have a happy-ever-after type ending, BUT give me something more than just a walk off.The book starts a bit violently, then gets very slow giving you some much needed background on the characters. However, it was dry. To be honest, the author did little with the background. It did give you a bit more of a picture into the teenagers involved, but not enough to actually make them into a fully fleshed out character.Bottom Line: I can see where this would have made a decent movie, maybe even a Fringe type TV series, but it had too much of a horror genre flavor for me and it came out as a story picked out of the middle of a much longer novel. While I enjoyed it, it left me very unsatisfied and with a ton of unanswered questions. If it was book 1 of a series I might give it a bit higher rating but it looks to be a standalone quick effort by the author so 3 Stars is what it gets for a good read but not the 5 Star story I feel it could have been with some time and effort.Reviewed by:  Douglas C. MeeksMember of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team