Lagoon

by Kate Flannery

Lorelei Wheeler returns home after four years to the small farming town of Annabel, and finds life as she knew it there to be slowly unraveling. Her father is drinking. Her mother seems haunted. Her brother, always a loner, is now disappearing for days at a time. Animals have vanished. A child has drowned, the body never recovered. Lorelei discovers an eerie, unnatural area in the forest. What she comes to understand is that the town itself is haunted by a presence in the woods. Lorelei must uncover the mystery that lies there and through that knowledge, try to redeem the soul, the life, of her brother, and of the town itself.

219 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

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Reviews

[Brian · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was one of those books that could have been intense and scary if the plot had been executed properly. Unfortunately, Flannery did a poor job of this. Between the excessive repetition, the complete dead-ending of the plot and any action associated with it in order to bog the reader down with needless melodrama, and some flat-out annoying characters, this book fell flat.

Another thing that really bothered me was the terrible editing. The myriad misplaced commas, the blatant typos, the obviously erroneous word choice, and the cringe-worthy misuse use of apostrophes diminished the reading experience. The novel wound up looking like a truly amateur piece of work.

I'll be steering clear of Flannery from now on, and I'll think twice about buying any other books published by iUniverse.