A wonderful thriller written with great mastership. A deep story of hope, isolation, and finally despair. The way the whole story unveils is tremendous and fascinating. The story of a persons life is shown on the story of three generations and seems to repeat on and on again, which is nothing but desperate given the conditions under which the main character, Misty Wilmot, lives. According to a prophecy, Misty, a talented artist, is predestinated to save lives of people living on Waytansea Island, now tourist-overrun, by her paintings. Misty soon finds out that her husband has been hiding rooms in houses he has rebuilt and scrawling vile messages all over the walls. This makes her paint a series of canvases that Grace, her mother-in-law, takes away. She is planning an art show. Little by little, Misty finds that she has lived her life on the island already two times and after dying, she will be probably reborn again...
This feeling of everlasting desperate impossibility to escape reality is like the life of phoenix who, after dying, flies up from the ashes and is born again. And it is this particular scary feeling which gives the book its darkest side and marvellous potential, adding the book a fourth dimension.