I liked The Whisper Man, thought it was supremely creepy. This one just didn't quite reach that level for me. The present day mystery and trying to solve the copycat killings were my favorite parts, I wasn't as enamored with the flashbacks to the past. I thought they were too drawn out and the lucid dreaming stuff didn't appeal to me at all.
There are some decent twists (one I saw coming from a mile away), but overall I just didn't connect with the story enough to make me care about the outcome. As with The Whisper Man, I thought there were some elements that could have been tightened up, especially the number of characters that really had no real reason to be the story except for some confusion. Also, after a while in the book, the author stopped indicating whether we were in the past or the present and I got a bit lost.
I listened to part of this as an audio book and the rest I read a print copy. The narrators were great, but as per usual with me, I needed to speed up the delivery in order to keep me engaged and not get bored. If you don't have an issue keeping characters straight/don't need to turn back and look at previous chapters, then the audio book is fantastic. Otherwise, it might get confusing if you can't keep everyone and all of the timelines sorted out.
Not sure if I will read additional books from this author, I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, and this is on the tippy borderline of that as opposed to a straight suspenseful mystery. The addition of the small amount of supernatural elements (and believe me, in the end there aren't many even though it seems that way at first) isn't my cup of tea for the most part.
There are some decent twists (one I saw coming from a mile away), but overall I just didn't connect with the story enough to make me care about the outcome. As with The Whisper Man, I thought there were some elements that could have been tightened up, especially the number of characters that really had no real reason to be the story except for some confusion. Also, after a while in the book, the author stopped indicating whether we were in the past or the present and I got a bit lost.
I listened to part of this as an audio book and the rest I read a print copy. The narrators were great, but as per usual with me, I needed to speed up the delivery in order to keep me engaged and not get bored. If you don't have an issue keeping characters straight/don't need to turn back and look at previous chapters, then the audio book is fantastic. Otherwise, it might get confusing if you can't keep everyone and all of the timelines sorted out.
Not sure if I will read additional books from this author, I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, and this is on the tippy borderline of that as opposed to a straight suspenseful mystery. The addition of the small amount of supernatural elements (and believe me, in the end there aren't many even though it seems that way at first) isn't my cup of tea for the most part.