Review: Unique Voice In Horror
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
This is my first experience reading Kate Jonez and overall, I was quite impressed with her writing.  The execution, however, felt a bit disjointed and inconsistent.  What begins as a road trip escaping from the scene of a crime slowly transitions into a strange dreamlike purgatory.  It made me think perhaps the author bit off more than she could chew and instead of following the story she set up, began throwing awkward imagery and vague hallucinations at the reader in the hopes that we would come up with our own story to piece together and fill in the blanks.There are some great moments and character insight in this book, but it started to unravel when the characters ended up at the mission in the desert.  To me, it felt as if you were watching a movie, and then all of a sudden, it kept skipping a few minutes ahead and you have to figure out what you just missed.  This happened over and over in the last third and really bothered me.  But I cannot deny the spontaneous violence, energy, and technical writing abilities of Jonez, and will be following her progress with interest.  A mixed recommendation for this one.