Review: Good story line if you can stumble past the prose.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
Although the story itself was good, I had a difficult time getting past the prose. The over use of flowery and figurative language was incongruous with the genre. When the author wrote dialog, the story flowed, but her descriptive paragraphs were off-putting. For example, these sentences described a roller coaster ride:"Once freed, they shakily departed, exhilaration percolating behind their eyes.”"Greedily gulping in air, they capsized again, launching into another vertical maneuver."Really?While she demonstrates a nice use of alliteration, and possibly a thesaurus, it interrupted the flow of the story.  Perhaps if the story line did not center on gang violence and supernatural horror, her style would be more appropriate.  It just seemed she was working so hard to have such a rich variety of sentence structure and impressive vocabulary that the story, and sometimes the meaning, suffered.So truly I might just give this a 2.5, but her story and dialog deserve a 3.A copy of this book was received in exchange for an honest review.