Review: Good for what it was, could have been more
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
I'm not sure I have much to add over and above what other reviewers have said.  While I agree with many that there was the potential here for a full novel, it was never fleshed out, and in fact some of the sections even felt a little stretched to me, to the point where the actual content was appropriate to a longer short story or novelette rather than a novella.  A lot of focus is put into fleshing out the characters, but there's not as much connection as there could have been between the story and the backgrounds of the characters.  The ending didn't really seem to pull everything together, either.  While there was good stuff here, and it's clear Lisa is a talented writer (The Janus Legacy is excellent, for example, but it and her first novel were techno-thrillers rather than supernatural ghost stories), I can't help but feel that the whole was less than the sum of the parts.All that said, for the investment of time, I did enjoy it.  I just felt like it could have been so much more.