Review: Another piece of  the puzzle
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
First off this is a serial. It is not a short story or a full story. It is part of a larger serialized novel. Don't expect an ending or all of the story threads to be tied up in a neat little bow. You will be left with questions probably that will hopefully be answered in a later installment. In a lot of ways it is like a TV show , like Lost or the X-Files, where you get a little more of the story each week along with a lot more questions.A serial killer moves in with a family in the middle of nowhere. The widow and her children have their own secrets. Will the family end up as the killer's next victims or will he be surprised by his actions?This installment really threw me. It seems to have no connection to the first part. In fact, it takes place decades before the first part. It is strange to say that the serial killer was the only character that seemed yo make sense. The widow and her children did things  that did not seem possible or to make sense. Hopefully they will be explained later.There was one flaw that was fairly annoying. The serial killer is obsessed with the number 13. So when he sees that another character has an extra toe, he gets excited because that means she has 13 toes. (Uhm, wait a minute. 5+5+1 = 11, not 13.) Not a big, important mistake but it was so obvious that it threw me out of the story for a minute.I found the story fairly predictable in general. I didn't guess the exact how since, like I said, I didn't really understand the family's powers since they were not that well explained or even described. The characters were still not well fleshed out.So again, it would get one star less if it wasn't for its potential. I will go for at least one more installment but if it doesn't grab me then I will probably stop with it.