I didn't read the predecessor to this book, The Silent Corner, but I was still able to get right into the story without a problem. I liked the idea of the plot, people being turned into mind-controlled zombies by an evil shadow corporation. Definitely a grasping premise. I got through the first 100 pages very quickly and thought that at that speed I would fly through the book, but I was wrong. After about 200 pages it started to drag. She bounces around to locations at a dizzying pace though doing somewhat the same stuff at them all. Then after nearly 500 pages, it just ends with a cliff-hanger leading into another book. I do intend to read the next book because I want to know what happens, but I can't help but feel that the story has been too dragged out and probably could've been finished in this book had he not wasted so much time on side plots. It's like how they split the final Harry Potter book into two movies and you got 3 hours of camping followed by 3 hours of all the action. This book is the dragged out slow moving camping adventure getting in the way of the the awesome grand finale.