I've started downloading chunks of files from each of the older "first look" excerpts of books on Bookish First in an effort to both find new books that I might be interested in and, of course, to be able to get the reward points to get more free books in the future. Now that my old nook died and I've had to dump the files into a nook tablet instead, it automatically populates everything in alphabetical order. As a result, that's what I'm working with because I'm too tired to try to change it. With this particular book, I found the premise to be unrealistic by page 5 of the excerpt. The amount of suspension of disbelief needed to be able to continue with this story beyond the excerpt was simply too great. At the same time, there wasn't enough detail to make the story engaging and the dialogue was far too stilted. The author would probably benefit from reading Shirley Jackson: A Haunted Life, as there are a great many sections in there expressly devoted to how to make dialogue occur within a fiction environment - the trick is to make it realistic enough to be believable without making it actual conversations that individuals would have. Overall, this one needs a great deal more polish before it could be considered worth the read. Glad to read the excerpt to know this one is worth passing on.