Helpful Score: 2
I quit after part 1, it doesn't start out very interesting then it gets to be page after page of just descriptions of every thing on this earth. Part 1 is 110 pages and if all the descriptions had been left out or cut down to reasonable there would've been 60 pages or so--I didn't find anything in part 1 that made me want to continue--it sounds kind of like a ghost story but I just didn't care to continue to find out, I have other books by this author I want to try especially the Lincoln Perry ones but if they are like this one then I won't bother to finish them.
Helpful Score: 2
Very good book! I know the French Lick, Indiana area where the story is set in and the author did a wonderful job describing it to a "T". It was a great story line and the story in the book is definitly something that could happen at French Lick if it were possible. I like a story with a little more pick-me-up but it was well worth reading and kind of neat to read about the little details and places that only locals know about :)
Helpful Score: 2
This is a great thriller that is difficult to put down. Nothing is as it seems, so you are guessing at every page!
I am not sure why some of the reviews were negative. The main character, Eric Shaw, is sent to the West Baden/French Lick, Indiana area to do a story on Campbell Bradford, a 95 year old millionaire. Eric has very little information to go on except a bottle of Pluto water. The Pluto water was in a light green glass bottle with etching across it that said "Pluto Water, America's Physic". It also had another etching, this one the image of a jaunty devil with horns, forked tail, and a sword. The bottle contains some strange liquid and, as the story progresses, the bottle keeps getting colder and colder to the touch.
Now I found the story interesting and I kept reading to find out what was going on.... If you read the book, you will want to get on the internet and look up the West Baden Springs Hotel -- the place is absolutely gorgeous. Pluto Water came from a mineral springs in the area and was bottled and sold as a cure for many things.
Now I found the story interesting and I kept reading to find out what was going on.... If you read the book, you will want to get on the internet and look up the West Baden Springs Hotel -- the place is absolutely gorgeous. Pluto Water came from a mineral springs in the area and was bottled and sold as a cure for many things.
I just could not finish this book, it had interesting plot points but it just dragged on and on for me. There were some likeable characters, but the main character, Eric Shaw is definitely not a classic hero. I tried to stay on just to find out the ending, but I could not take it, it just didn't have good writing, and the plot was not interesting enough for me to bother finishing the book
If I had read this book without knowing the author, I would have said it was written by Stephen King. Very similar style; entertaining story, combining suspense and some paranormal. Satisfying ending.
