Review: Sometimes Wonderful Sometimes Lacking
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2011
Twilight in the Spaces BetweenEditing is terrible and interferes with reading flow.  Foul language and prejudicial sentiments expressed.  Twilight has more than it's share of perversion, rage and hate.  There are many "babies of rabies" in this tale.  Only a cleansing fire can make it right.Text contains contradictory imaging ("Five years of bone dry summers and rainy seasons without rain has turned Kisatchie into kindling waiting for the match."  "Andrea steps to the edge of the platform and looks down to see her reflection in an oily pool of water.")  This is only one example of inattention to detail.  There is absolutely genius imaging ("...the basketball hits the asphalt, the sound is like a fist striking flesh" creating a visceral image and completely clueless imaging such as "An impossible sun...wasted sky...".  What exactly does that mean?The protagonists are both victims and are trying to find ways to make the suffering go away--opposite sides of the same coin.  Even though the disorganization of the story--multiple characters continually switch with one another between the present and the past--reflects the mental state of both Clive and Andrea, it makes the story very hard to follow.  When Andrea finds transportation to Twilight the sounds she hears, the body she finds, and the location of the car are completely lost as the story progresses.The story is jerky making it hard to read, but the phrasing is vivid drawing you in.  This novel has a split personality and actually reads like two rather than one author.  One author I would read again, the other one I can live without.Definitely a book you will not soon forget!