Review: Wishy washy at best
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2011
I downloaded "Stain of Mind" after reading the other reviews about this (VERY) short story.  It sounded like the kind of story I would be interested in.  I literally had to go back and make sure we were reading the same story because I just don't feel the same way as the other reviewers do at all.Scary - I didn't feel that way.  I felt more like the author tried to come up with some disturbing scenarios for his serial killer to participate in but to me they seemed contrived and wooden.  There was no depth to the protaganist - NO character development.The sex scene seemed to be thrown in gratuitously and I didn't find it erotic - I found it degrading to women.  Yes, this is about a serial killer but the sex scene was skewed and unnecessary, I felt.Maybe this would benefit from being longer so the author has more time to "flesh" out the story (ha ha) but I guess I'm comparing this to Blake Crouch and J.A. Konrath in their stories about serial killers -SERIAL UNCUT,BAD GIRL,DESERT PLACES,LOCKED DOORS, andBREAK YOU.  Those are some of the most disturbing stories about serial killers I've read.