Review: Too many misses, not enough hits
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
I found this on a free book site newslist recently. Having toyed with the idea of reading one of the Rebecca Frank series, but not being willing to buy it based on Amazon reviews, I was glad I got a chance to read this lady's work on a free basis.Truthfully, I really can't decide if I like Willow Rose's work or not after reading these four stories. The only really decent, great scary one in the pack is "Nibble, Nibble Crunch." The first story, "Rock A Bye Baby" is just too predictable...and if THAT'S Rebecca Frank at the end of it, one wonders how the character solves anything. She comes across in that story as being one of the dumbest, dense characters I've ever read. "Eenie Meenie" was ok, but it was so boring I fast forwarded to the end to see who the mystery man was.But for pure, stand out, sick, twisted perversion, one need look no further than "Humpty Dumpty."  That is the thing that really bothered me though with all of the stories - somehow or another, with the exception of the first one (as I recall) they all come back to stories with hints or full out rape or incest in them, and it just leaves one cold after a while - and not from fear.  "Humpty Dumpty" nearly made me physically ill...and with no real sense of closure to it, that was even worse.It's one thing to use words to scare; it's quite another to use them to try and shock us with perverse thoughts. I think that's the thing...an author like Stephen King would be able to find the horror without having to resort to such graphic images to do so, and it was the hardcore description in that final story that really turned me off. Well, ok that and the author's obvious "fascination" with such topics. Rape and incest is not an easy topic to deal with, but it seemed as if she was going more erotic that scary and it just didn't work for me.