Review: This author writes books I have a tough time wanting to interrupt!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
I didn't realize until 3/4 of the way done that I had also read the book "Creatures of Appetite" by same author and enjoyed that story as well. Here we have a five-some (points of a pentagon) playing a black magic game and as indicated in the book by this passage "All darkness comes with great cost." Author builds a nice amount of empathy for the foster child, Darin, as he let's you into his mind with this remark "The nice thing was that they didn't pretend to care about him anymore than they actually did. Darin appreciated that and, as a result, didn't give them too much stuff in return." Perhaps the ending might have gone in a different direction, but I was more than satisfied overall with the story and am still pondering this passage even now  "Because I cared about nothing, not even myself, it meant nothing. Even when I had it all, I had...nothing."