Colene A. (colene) reviewed on 11/12/2014 + 44 more book reviews

This book, in addition to being somewhat formulaic (sort of one of the Lifetime Channel formulae), there are a few places in the story where the ethics exhibited by major characters are disturbing because they are let lie as if they are OK. For instance, when the main characters do a home invasion in the home of someone they suspect is a pedophile when the daughter goes missing, they proceed to threaten blackmail (he is found in bed with one of their married neighbors--he isn't a pedophile) if he reports them for what is, in fact, breaking and entering. The implication is that adultery is the worse crime. If that is a spoiler paragraph, so be it--readers are entitled to know when this level of dreck is reached.

In addition to that, there is a "ghost" and "supernatural" thing going on that is very immature and kind of stupid, IMO. and adds nothing to the plot except to make one wonder what the author was thinking to feel that was a good way to go.

The writer has several themes going on--adult survivors of possible sexual abuse, murder of the abuser relative when the main characters (sisters) were youngsters, a mother who is limited because she survived a childhood in a squalid, violent slummy Southern town. The people speak like ignorant cretins from deep in the backwoods, and there aren't any who rise above scum of the Earth--except, of course, the protagonists.

All in all it was a distasteful effort. I haven't read anything else by this author, and now probably won't.

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