Review: Scary, scary, scary!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
I bought this series thinking of the TV series, but this is nothing like it.  I have to disagree with the negative reviews. Sure, there were a few typos, but every book has them. (I've become hyper-critical of that since becoming an author myself.)I think this book was scary in a Dean Koontz-Stephen King kind of way.  The author didn't tell the story straight-out, but by using different characters to tell their side of it, and by using flash backs she unraveled the tale of the strange goings-on in a mental asylum.  It added to the suspense. I'm not going to re-tell the story here, you can get that in the book description above. I couldn't put it down. Actually, this is a book that I couldn't wait to finish because it was so scary it made me apprehensive. It's also very gory, and I guess I was surprised because women writers don't usually go for the gore. It was a ghost story, a detective story and a sci-fi tale rolled into one.  I plan to read some of Ms. Cross' other works in the future.