Peter was a little too "perfect" to be believable: rich, attractive, "humble", and capable of doing real magic. He was the very definition of a Larry Stu who was never exactly challenged or put into danger. His relationship with Liza is unsatisfactory and she waffles from being unreasonably melodramatic to overly fawning over how amazingly wonderful Peter is. Since we know what the Big Danger is from the beginning of the book thanks to Peter's psychic abilities, we never really get a natural building up of suspense, instead Swain tries to get us to jump through hoops to get there, which just exhausted the plot. The writing was mediocre at best, with far too much character development coming from the omnipotent narrator rather than the characters themselves. Swain comes from the camp of tell-your-audience-everything rather than show-them-this-scene-and-allow-them-to-infer-some-information. Overall I was not particularly impressed, and while I can see it was trying to bridge the gap between the paranormal crowd and the thriller loving crowd, I don't think either will find the things they love about those genres in large enough doses to please them.