Review: Pagan cults, rituals, sex tied in one neat ball
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
This is a fast-moving novella with many twists and turns, and many characters who keep leaping into the story as it progresses, which makes it an interesting page-turner.  Dana March, the female protagonist has been released after five days from a mental institution, being told she is not suicidal any more.  Later she is at a motel with her new husband, Jack Harris, who nobody has ever seen and with whom she has not cohabited.  She cannot find her husband after she returns to the motel room from checking in and the story centers around her search for Jack.  During this search, she goes to the commune, which her sister, Zoe and husband, Clive run (Home of the Rainbow Collective.)Physical action builds page by page as she continues to seek her missing husband and various mysterious individuals enter the scenes.  There is evil and horror throughout, which builds page by page...a mystery, and being only a novella there is not the ability to truly build characters.  Definitely Dana, who is at first depicted as being a helpless woman, is anything but and her cat even is an attack cat who is dangerous, along with a mastiff owned by the caretaker.  The only weakness I noticed is that the ending just happens suddenly as if the author didn't know how to end it with the same drama that the rest of the novel contains.