Review: Talented writer gives a chilling tale!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2013
Oh my, this was one chilling story that truly makes you question how far you'd go when pushed hard enough. Normally a romance/fantasy reader myself, I wasn't sure how I'd feel about a story that didn't really have either. But Debra Doxer definitely drew me in with this potent look into the mind of a seemingly normal man who did the unthinkable.The overwhelming feeling I got while reading this book was a gloom, because Dan truly views his life at home this way. He was thrilled to finally leave his childhood home and go off to college when the time came, and going back for visits with his arguing, depressing parents was something he truly loathed. He viewed his childhood and his small-town life in Cape Cod as something to run away from, including the people in it. When his former friend Seth decides he wants to get together with their old acquaintance and town screw-up Eddie, I knew it wasn't going to go well. Eddie really gave me the creeps, he was unsettling and just wreaked of pent-up violence. It's just too bad Dan didn't catch on to that a little sooner.After a fateful night when Eddie's intense anger gets the best of him, Seth and Dan were forced to deal with the aftermath along with him. I absolutely detested Eddie for his self-righteous behavior after the horrid things he'd done, expecting everyone to solve his problems for him. It was an eye-opening experience for Dan, for sure, because he saw who Seth and Dan truly were deep down, as well as what he was when push came to shove. My stomach was in knots as he struggled with the guilt and pressure of his decisions, and I hoped so strongly that he would choose a better path.Overall, Wintertide was a frightening story that will be a sure hit for fans of chilling suspense reads and it gets 3.5 stars from me!