Nancy A. (Chocoholic) reviewed on 6/26/2013 + 291 more book reviews

I probably wouldn't have noticed this book if it weren't for Stephen King recommending it. So I had to have a peek. It's about a small town in California, Perdido Beach, where suddenly one day everyone over the age of 15 poofs out of existence. Further complicating things, there is no leaving town because of a very Stephen-King-like dome. It very quickly turns into a modern day Lord of the Flies type of story. This is book 1 in a six part series. I read this in about 2 days; it is a very gripping story. My main complaint was that it seemed as if some important lines had been forgotten or edited out. In one of the climactic scenes, the hero and the antagonist are battling it out, and then suddenly the hero is underneath the wreckage of a building, but there's no explanation as to how that happened. This seems to happen several times over the course of the book with scenes not being fully explained and the reader left to go back, re-read it and figure out what was missing and then go on. Overall I enjoyed this book, and will probably read some of the sequels, but I do hope that the sequels are better written than this first entry.

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