Review: Good mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
Instinct by Mattie Dunman is, overall, a good book.The story starts well and leaves you curious about the things that are happening right from the start. Derry's ability is incredible and, at first, seems to be wonderful but also raises some moral issues that are well developed in the book. If you can persuade people to tell you everything you want, how can you know why they are telling you? Because they trust you or because you're making them do it? Is it good, even if it's not on purpose, to be sneaking on people's personal secrets? Read the book, and the questions will be answered.A sweet romance, unexpected heroes and vilians. (I can't give you any spoilers but "P" was REALLY WELL thought. It wasn't really what I was expecting).At some points, Derry listens to some harsh truths that happen in people's lives that we, the readers, think, "Is this going to be solved, too?". Things such as what happens in Shane's house or in the nurse's life. Anyway, obviously, the book doesn't focus on those issues, since they're not part of the main story but they still add something to the book itself.There are no sex scenes in this book (thank you so much) but there are a lot of innuendos in the beginning. Something that almost made me put the book away. I can even say that I gave up on reading it for two days or so but then decided to give it another chance and I'm glad to say that I was not disapointed. It gets somehow predictable at some point but that's normal and it doesn't make the story a bad one.ATTENTION. The story deals with abuse, physical and psycological, pressure... but also friendship and what we should fight for when we see our friends in trouble and in need for help.The story seems to work well as a stand alone book but I felt like it left some loose ends (Like Jake and Cole's father). Well, let's see what the author still has for us.I can't remember finding any typos and the formatting is really good.Worth reading. Four stars.