My rating: 2 of 5 stars
First book of the year that I DNF’d. It sounded good- supernatural, set in Scotland, young women disappearing and apparently murdered, lots of moody, sinister setting- all things that should have been appealing.
The problem was, it was just so terribly slow reading. Lots of drawn out detail and mood-setting that dragged the action down. And the dialogue didn’t help. It’s written in Scots dialect, and while it is done well, it just dragged an already slow story down more when I needed to stop to parse what the heck the speaker was saying. Add to that I figured out the Bad Guy almost as soon as he came onstage, I knew the final victim and why they were chosen, and pretty much knew how the story would end, and it just didn’t work for me.
That said, if the dialogue doesn’t tie you down, the Frankenstein’s-monster-esque plot was one of the things that kept me reading as long as I did. It just wasn’t enough to hold me through the whole thing.
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My latest book is a collection of very short stories, half science fiction and half fantasy, called “Crossed Wires and Other Very Short Stories”. I have also written a few other short pieces, another collection, two novels, and an urban fantasy series. You can find most of them at Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and wherever e-books are sold. A few are also available from Amazon in paperback. My novel, “Circle Unbroken” is also on Kindle Unlimited, if that’s your reading preference. You can find out about all of them here.
There are also some stories you can read here on my site, mostly the yearly Halloween short I write, but there are a few others. You can read them from here
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