Review: Light turned dark
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
The characters in Snow Day are typical 1970's kids.  Playing outside with the other neighborhood kids was the thing to do when a storm came through and the schools were closed.  Things like kidnappings weren't talked about openly in front of the children, even if they were discussed among the adults.  Childhood was fresh and unmarred by darkness brought on by evil, not the kind perpetrated by other kids.Mr. Maurer brings one such day to life through the eyes of a young boy and we follow his day through his experiences as they happen, from the snowball fight to things going downhill fast, in more ways than one.  Darkness falls when darkness falls.This story is difficult to review without giving anything away; in an effort to keep from doing that, I will only say that I enjoyed the story's suspense and the weaving of the tale more as the pages turned.