Review: Very twisted series, but very believable. This could be your neighbor!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2013
I've read volumes 1,2, 3 and I am impressed with the author's descriptive clarity and continued commitment to stay true to believability in this series.Volume 2 starts with a bang and finishes with a cliffhanger daring you to download volume 3 to continue marring your dreams, day or night with nightmares.  Are you afraid of the dark (achluophobia)? Are you afraid of rats (musophobia)? Are you claustrophobic, agliophobic, agraphobic, and on? This series touches on all of those fears we have seated deep within our own psyches then through the main characters' depth of depravity and his victims, rapes you with those fears.I do like this series because it stays true to the believability then takes imagination to take it to an unbelievable level of depravity.  I most definitely don't like or enjoy the dark evil described but it is necessary to the story and to the characters.  It strikes me that this author has done a bit of his own research into the real monsters of our world and has successfully tried to translate that into as real a fictional character and story as he could within the real world of Los Angeles.  I have lived in Los Angeles for years and have looked into programs identifying depraved individuals living in and around our common 'safe' neighborhoods  and it's frightening to see how many there are and those are just the ones we know of because they were caught! Who is to tell a man such as this isn't living in your neighborhood, eating at your diner, working next to you...? This thought scares me more than any fictional horror movie could for the simple fact that you never really know your neighbors.  Like Geoffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Robert Pickton, John Wayne Gacy, Ottis Toole, Charles Ng, Robert Lee Yates, Albert De Salvo and many more whom we are aware of...you never know what horrific thoughts or secretive actions may be behind that smile.  These monsters are masters of disguise and like hunters in the woods tracking and killing deer, they use all the accouterments of societal norms to set and hide the traps for their unsuspecting victims which may be you.  These are the true monsters of both waking and dreaming nightmares and this author does justice in keeping to one version of its telling through a fictional but very real character.This is more than just disturbing.  Excellent series so far.