Review: Terror and a mother's love
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
When a young mother prepares to leave a store parking lot, she gains an unwelcome passenger with a gun. As she drives at the unstable woman's direction, she has one goal in mind: to keep her baby girl from harm.You know that the story can only turn out one of two ways, and it creates a very tense atmosphere. The author does a fine job with the suspense while giving just enough back-story of the two women involved. I would call this more of a crime-drama than a horror story, although the situation is certainly horrific enough. There is a suggestion of a supernatural element underlying the event, but that aspect of the story is pretty low-key. Maybe for that reason, I thought that the story lacked a certain punch that I like to see in dark fiction. I liked the fact that this novella is very short; it's just about the right length for a tense hostage story like this.