Review: What's going on with room # 8?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
The lives of three very different people converge in this tale of sorrow, new beginnings, and suspended justice. That's about all that I'm going to write about the story itself. Lisa von Biela has created a tight weave of personalities and events that may be best left to unfold for the reader without too much prior knowledge.I especially like the way that the author handles characters in her books. Lisa does a very good and subtle job of portraying her characters with multi-layered human qualities; I don't really get the impression that I'm reading about cookie-cutter protagonists and villains, even in a short work like this.I'm not sure that I'd categorize this book as horror, although that label covers a lot of ground. In fact, although there's a horrible event at the heart of the story,  some amateur detective work, and some supernatural content, the book defies a neat label. That doesn't matter at all, because it's a solid and enjoyable read with excellent story-telling.