September review: The Messengers by Edward Hogan
Creepy cover. Creepy book. Fifteen-year-old Frances ends up spending the summer at her aunt’s house. She meets Peter and is immediately drawn to him. It turns out, Peter is a messenger, a “chosen” one whose job it is to deliver messages of death, or face death within his own family. As it turns out, Frances is a messenger, too. But, she refuses to just accept this role, and begins to develop a strategy to change the future. But, death seems to have other plans.
What I liked: REALLY different concept. The story was disturbing, but so interesting that you had to keep reading to see what was going to happen.
What I didn’t like: the age difference between Frances and Peter was a little odd (she’s 15 and he’s 29), but her attraction to him is believable, even if a little unsettling. My biggest complaint was that even though the concept was interesting, the story seemed to drag on and on, and we never really got a full understanding of these “messengers.”
The concept alone makes the story unique, but in the end, it just falls a bit flat.
3.5 out of 5 stars
What I liked: REALLY different concept. The story was disturbing, but so interesting that you had to keep reading to see what was going to happen.
What I didn’t like: the age difference between Frances and Peter was a little odd (she’s 15 and he’s 29), but her attraction to him is believable, even if a little unsettling. My biggest complaint was that even though the concept was interesting, the story seemed to drag on and on, and we never really got a full understanding of these “messengers.”
The concept alone makes the story unique, but in the end, it just falls a bit flat.
3.5 out of 5 stars
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