Review: Enjoyable read with a twist
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2013
Okay...This short fiction piece starts off in the mind of a killer, so it's not all THAT enjoyable at first, but then you get into the meat of the actual story, and you begin to understand what it's all about.I didn't like (and didn't understand) the time-hopping thing in the beginning. You're in the mind of the killer watching his victim at the start, and the scene takes you all the way to him following her to bed and waiting for her to fall asleep. Then, in the next scene, you're in the mind of the victim (who is supposed to be asleep), except she's going through the day's previous actions, on up until she falls asleep. But even then we don't quite synchronize time, because she's dreaming about what the killer's doing to her...except he hasn't done it yet (as we see when we jump back to his head in the next scene). Admittedly, this time shifting threw me out of the story a lot at first. But, after we got to that point, everyone's actions were synchronized, and by the end, it all made a little more sense, anyway.There were a few editing issues (I don't think a necessary apostrophe was ever present, and there was at least one case of a repeated word). All in all, though, this was a good way to spend a sleepless hour (not that it kept me awake; I was awake, anyway, due to a bit of insomnia). At this low price point, you can't miss. Well worth the entertainment value.