Ella is a woman on a mission, from spying on her neighbours, in their bathroom, to employing her special skills on a local lad. What is she creating in her basement and just why is she so keen on getting her neighbours into her cellar?
Jason West, Birth Creature (No publisher listed, 2012)
Points off for incomplete information (no publisher listed, no page count listed).
Not a bad idea, this, and I like the way West brings everything full circle at the end; a bit of thought went into this one, which places it head and shoulders above the usual claptrap. Unfortunately, this is undermined by the wholesale massacre of grammar to be found here (“Her plastic bags lain on the grass, Ella, parted the bushes.”). I wanted to like this a great deal more than I did; if the author employs the services of a professional editor and then re-releases this, he'll have something. * ½