A Review by H.M. Flath – Cursed by Sherrod Wall

A Review of Cursed by Sherrod Wall

Sherrod Wall begins his story, Cursed, with a very ordinary Native American teenage girl by the name of Zarah Cloud who is living a very ordinary life in an ordinary family, attending an ordinary high school and dealing with the ordinary things that a teenager has to deal with – peers, teachers, parents and friends while studying, singing, dancing and living her life.

Once Zarah develops a friendship with Eric which begins as a fascination with Eric���s conversations with his ���imaginary��� friend, things change very quickly. The reader is taken on a journey from the ordinary normal events to extraordinary paranormal events, accompanied by repulsive odors, bites, infections, black oozing goo and blackouts, experiencing spiritual mystic energies, conflicts of good and evil and ancient tribal rituals with heinous acts by half animal and half human spirits.

It is a quickly paced, action filled story which held my interest throughout. Having said that however, in my opinion the pilgrimage taken by Rose and Eric, was ���over the top���, for lack of a better term. The duration of it, along with the extraordinary occurrences, dragged me down but perhaps in all fairness to the author, that may be what the author intended. At times, I also felt confused as to what was happening and to whom.

This book would probably appeal to the sci-fi and adolescent readers. I received it free from the author through Goodreads in exchange for an honest review.