Review: Eerie Mood; Plot All Falls Down
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
Anna is an orphan who grew up in West Texas. A man’s voice in her head often makes her wonder if she is insane. She has intuitive insights; these, too, she had learned to hide.Traveling to New Orleans to join her one friend from her days in a Roman Catholic school for girls, Anna is waylaid by a serial killer and saved when the man’s voice in her head turns out to be her soul-mate. An eerie mood is established at this point and maintained throughout the rest of the novel.Gabriel is part of a family of high intuitives and telepaths who reside around a mysterious black lake in Louisiana.  This is Anna’s family, too. Her mother had married one of its members, but Anna was fathered by a different member of the family outside of both their marriages. He is now one of the elders of the family.Anna is welcomed into the family, but with reservations by some.  There is a lot of talk about Anna’s curiosity and secrets the family is hiding. It’s pretty routine gothic horror movie stuff and paranormal romance.  If you have wondered why someone in a horror movie or novel does something that is so patently dangerous without any back-up support, you will be agog at Anna’s lack of judgment.SPOILER ALERT:  High telepathy is one of the secrets the family does not want the outside world to discover, a reason they stay cloistered at the black lake. Until people learn to keep up a guard to protect the privacy of their innermost thoughts, others can tell what they are thinking.When people are scared, it is harder for them to keep up that guard.Yet no one in the family ever caught a stray thought from one of the elders who is murdering anyone believed to be a danger to the family. When the serial killer is unmasked, their lack of interest in people who had mysteriously gone missing after visiting their town is shrugged off.  Huh, they agree, maybe we should have paid more attention.Guess so.END SPOILER ALERTThere is nothing memorable about any of the characters, but nothing offensive either. It is a pleasant gothic paranormal romance. I might read other books by this author if I got them free for the Kindle, as I did this one.