Review: Mediocre, But Not Without Its Moments
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2012
"Dark Entry" by John Kachuba is an easy read (although it surely is not 957 pages, as indicated in Amazon's 'Product Details' page) with a premise full of potential.  An area, essentially haunted as a result of historical misdoings, wreaking havoc with those who would dare populate it regardless of how much time had passed, has a certain draw if the author can convincingly implement a bit of historical fiction in the telling of such a tale.  And while the historical backstory is, without doubt, the highlight of the book, there is too little of it to balance the blandness offered by the story's main character, a woman who, while evidently irresistible to the opposite sex, is, nonetheless fairly dull-minded.  The buildup in the first third of the book is not bad and demonstrates a certain patience on the part of Kachuba that is clearly exhausted by the time he nears the end.Commas aside (I have little room to speak in that department), I found eight typos, which probably isn't all that high for an indie publication of this length.  More distracting than anything was the inconsistency of the paragraph indentations.  Most paragraphs were indented too deeply, while others were not indented at all.Lastly, I must say that I would give "Dark Entry" a 3.5 if the option existed, and it should.  After all, a 3 is 60% and therefore a 'D', while a 4 is 80% or essentially a 'B'.  In my thinking "Dark Entry" is neither and falls somewhere between.