Review: Loved it!  Not disappointed at all!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
I don’t care to read serial novels and instead prefer to wait until the author finishes all of the episodes.  I had been eagerly awaiting the publishing of McFall and as it was released in series I bit my nails and forced myself not to start.  When I read I develop a momentum and read to the end.Waiting for the completed work did not disappoint me.  I really liked the previous novels THE RED CHURCH and LITTLE DRUMMER BOY and had high expectations for the last (?) in this series of novels.  That usually sets the poor author up for failure, but not this time.  Nicholson pulls from his earlier novels and really fleshes out the characters and motivations.  The pacing and plot are superbly done.There is no requirement to read the earlier books as this one stands alone quite well, but I highly recommend that you do.  Sheriff Littleton, Ronnie and David are back as well as the ghosts that haunt Pickett County in the NC Appalachians.  There is something about Larkin McFall that seems evil, and I say ‘seems’ because there are scenes that will have you wondering, for example, his wish for children.  A mystery to say the least.  The McFalls have a very bad reputation in Pickett County going back to the ‘hanged preacher’ and a preacher who was most certainly evil.  But McFall is a tempter, looking for what each person in the county most wants and somehow seeing to it that it comes to fruition.  Something Ronnie battles throughout the book.It is quite evident that Nicholson’s prose has been well honed.  I zoomed through this book stopping only for the necessities and finished by morning.  I was thinking ‘this is awesome!’ and then I hit the ending…and the reason I have held off writing this review, and after a week, I *still* don’t know whether I liked or hated it.  At first I hated it then the more I thought about it I began to warm up to it.  Your mileage may vary.  Personally, I’ve got my fingers crossed that there will be more to come.This is an excellent read and I give it 5-stars.  I really hate giving 5-stars but I’ve read some really good books lately, McFALL being one of them, and I always rate what they deserve.