Review: If I were grading this story it would get a C.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2014
This book was not so bad that I wanted to stop reading it, but it has so many inconsistencies and incongruencies as well as impossibilities that it made me wonder about the author. I often had the feeling in reading it that it was by a fairly inexperienced writer. One thing I found particularly annoying was his use of either/or in describing Darc's thinking about facial expressions. It seemed very sophomoric and added nothing at all to the character.Despite all of that, I did find myself wanting to read through to see how the author would solve seemingly insolvable problems. Time elements within the events seem to be totally improbable. Seconds and minutes tended to expand to allow enough time for the protagonist to "save the city."I was not sure if the author intended this to be a series of murder mysteries or a horror story. As horror, it did not hold a candle to Stephen King or Dean Koontz. And there tended to be a magical quality about the way he attributed "Savant" qualities to the little girl. It seemed to take the meaning of savant a bit further then it would normally be.I feel that I am nitpicking, but during the entire time I was reading these stories, these particular factors tended to bother me. I note that most of the reviewers liked the books very much, and I can't say that I disliked them, but merely that there was much room for improvement in the writing.