Review: A very good start
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2012
I found this book to be exciting and scary - sort of like a Twilight Zone episode.  The characters were teens and the dialogue was fairly accurate.  There was some gratuitous bad language and choppy dialogue between the kids and the adults and this is what made the book seem a little amature.  It felt like it was written by a teenager because the interactions between the adults and teens were all over the place - the parents seemed bi-polar; they would be consoling and comforting their child in one breath then screaming at them in the next, then preaching at them in the next...it was weird.  There were several grammatical errors which again, marked the book as more amature.Now for the good stuff:  The book has a really great premise and storyline.  It sounds like one of those stories that kids tell each other to scare themselves.  If you grew up in the U.S., you'll most likely understand what I mean.  Where I grew up, it was crybaby bridge (apparently an infant was killed in a car accident at some point in time and if you came to the bridge at night, you could hear it crying).  It's fast moving with a lot of fight scenes, but nothing gory or horribly violent.  I think the target audience for this is middle school to early high school aged kids.If I were a teacher and an 8th grade student handed this in for a creative writing assignment, I'd give them an A+.  If they were a 12th grader, a B-.  It's a short book with a lot of potential - a good editor and you might have a hit!