Review: Best of the "Locked-In" Books
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
Having read the first two books in the series that features "Locked In Syndrome," I was kind of hesitant to dig into this one, and it sat in my Kindle Cloud for several weeks before I tackled it. After all, how many "rescue the locked-in person" plots can there be? But Michael Wallace's writing has never disappointed me, and once I started "Cauldron" I was hooked. Wes and now-pregnant Becca and Uncle Davis are back, and Wes's mentally impaired twin brother takes center stage in playing his hero, Sherlock Holmes, in the pursuit of rescuing another locked-in victim in a Costa Rica facility. Wallace is a mater of creating suspense and continually raising the stakes in the game as he does so. His cold-hearted incestuous villainess is one of his best supporting characters in any of his books as well, and he threads the victim's backstory through the plot masterfully.