Review: i liked this work - shortfall was edited poorly
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2012
I read this and found it quite interesting.  I have read two other books from this author (11th floor and I cannot recall name of other right now).This is a story wherein a hole has appeared in a town that appears living in some fashion.  There seems to be some history of this particular town being destoryed over the years.  Or, huge supernatural events occur with some regularity once the town doesn't burn to ground every so many generations.  There seem to be lots of folks that inexplicably go missing over years.  In any case, this particular event (sinkhole) is to be covered by reporter Sapphire (who hails from town and experienced odd occurance (s) in her youth).  She is unhappy with the assignment feeling is a fluff media piece and she'd rather be reporting from a third world country about something "real."  She gets to town and events transpire that make her intrigued and a disbelieving believer.  She follows the leads, interviews people related to a mysterious fire girl from pit.  The ending was interesting and the message I got was that the other side (perhaps parallel universe) are scary for the unknown - but that not all things appearing evil really have evil intent.  Sapphire is willing (for unknown and unexplained reason) to tempt fear of unknown and is rewarded (in her description of place she walked to I felt as such) for not allowing mass hysteria and fear to claim her.The drawback to this piece is (as with other two I read) the poor editing.  While this one had fewest errors to date (of those I read), there were still too many to award the fourth star I really want to give.Fast paced read (one sitting - less than 45 min) that many will enjoy.Christine