Review: Skillful building of tension
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
This is a very clever book! I love how it starts with a quiet bang. Joe sees a girl jump off a dangerous cliff and, a former lifeguard,  he jumps in after her. Something is strange about her, even beyond that she threw herself off the cliff. Or did she? Might she have just fallen? This is the start of his rationalizing away all the strangeness about her. More and more oddities crop up, but he manages to find an explanation for all of them. Then other things start happening. A jolly rock-hunter who tells endless jokes begins haunting their property, a crazy man seems to be following Sarah around, Joe doesn't know if they are any more ominous than the fix his older brother has gotten himself into.The supporting cast is a vivid and colorful collection of characters. A former girlfriend everyone thinks Joe still has a crush on, a neighbor who constantly says he sees UFOs so of course no one believes him, another friend of the female persuasion who takes Sarah shopping and becomes her new BFF.To avoid spoilers, I just have to content myself with saying the book builds, one event following another with increasing speed. Small events from earlier crop up with ominous import until you don't know who to trust. I'm itching to spill more beans, but I won't. I'll just content myself with saying it is definitely worth the ride!