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Graveyard Games
~*~*~For fans of Sarah Langan, Elizabeth Hand and Stephen King!~*~*~
~*~*~2011 EPIC AWARD FINALIST~*~*~
Dusty has always been the hothead in the pair -- her twin, Nick, he was the calm, cool and collected one. But now Nick is dead, found murdered in their local cemetery, and Dusty, on forced leave from her job as a Chicago police officer, goes back to her childhood home to attend the funeral.
It becomes quickly apparent to Dusty that the local authorities aren’t being straight with her, or anyone else, about what’s been going on in the little Midwestern town she grew up in. The detective in her kicks in and she decides to find out what--or who--has killed her brother, so she moves in temporarily with her father and stepmother, takes a job in a local bar, and starts asking questions.
Her focus soon fixes on Shane, her brother’s best friend--the town bad boy and bad seed. The tension between the two of them has always been palpable, and nothing has changed. Sparks fly as they collide, and while Dusty finds herself sinking in deeper with Shane, the mystery of what happened to her brother--and an ever growing list of victims--grows even stranger.
Dusty finds her past haunting her everywhere she goes as she continues to dig deeper into the circumstances of her brother’s death, and her future looms large as her fate as a police officer is about to be determined back in Chicago. With everything coming to a head, she focuses on one thing: What happened the night her brother was killed in the cemetery? She’s sure Shane knows... something... and she’s determined to find out what it is, one way or another.
~*~*~2011 EPIC AWARD FINALIST~*~*~
Dusty has always been the hothead in the pair -- her twin, Nick, he was the calm, cool and collected one. But now Nick is dead, found murdered in their local cemetery, and Dusty, on forced leave from her job as a Chicago police officer, goes back to her childhood home to attend the funeral.
It becomes quickly apparent to Dusty that the local authorities aren’t being straight with her, or anyone else, about what’s been going on in the little Midwestern town she grew up in. The detective in her kicks in and she decides to find out what--or who--has killed her brother, so she moves in temporarily with her father and stepmother, takes a job in a local bar, and starts asking questions.
Her focus soon fixes on Shane, her brother’s best friend--the town bad boy and bad seed. The tension between the two of them has always been palpable, and nothing has changed. Sparks fly as they collide, and while Dusty finds herself sinking in deeper with Shane, the mystery of what happened to her brother--and an ever growing list of victims--grows even stranger.
Dusty finds her past haunting her everywhere she goes as she continues to dig deeper into the circumstances of her brother’s death, and her future looms large as her fate as a police officer is about to be determined back in Chicago. With everything coming to a head, she focuses on one thing: What happened the night her brother was killed in the cemetery? She’s sure Shane knows... something... and she’s determined to find out what it is, one way or another.
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First published February 22, 2010
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November 29, 2015
Creepy and spooky... A bit hard to accept the ending, but was a spooky read and I liked it.
May 17, 2012
Another day, another episode of me getting my kindle-face on. I left the kindle alone after my initial kindle frenzy in March so I thought it was time to return.
Graveyard Games is available free on Amazon. I'm not on any of those "what-is-off-amazon-that-is-free-so-i-can-download-it-immediately-and-stuff-it-in-through-my-eyes-and-into-my-brain-box" type forums or groups so, how best to find out about free books on Amazon? Type the word "free" into the search box and you will invariably get a load of books with the word "free" in the title and they normally cost money! I've found the quickest way is to type "0.00" into the search parameters et voila. FreEbooks. Lovely. Or not.
As well as free books there are other things that I like. Coffee which is extra strong, yasai itame with extra chunks of tofu and most importantly in this case, books which seem to promise untold monstrous horrors which actually have monsters in them. And this brings me, after much prevarication to Graveyard Games.
There was a decided lack of monster based action. Victims, yes. Monster, no. In fact the monster only put in what i felt was a moderately underwhelming appearance at the 80% mark and this had me stamping my feet and shouting because i signed up for monsters godammit! But of course I kept reading because when you've waited this long for the monster to show up, it's rude to leave or throw the book down in a big huff and storm off, he's here now so you might as well get to know him.
The distilled premise is that small town girl who had made it as a big city cop, returns to said small town after being framed for a crime she did not commit. She's fit and the crime is vice. After all, what better after-hours use for a cops uniform than a little extra curricular fantasy fulfilment as a high class call girl? Still with me?
She returns home after her brother is killed in a vicious attack, to find that he is not the only victim, but the police aren't too concerned. Allegedly a bobcat with a serious case of the munchies has started snacking on the local populace, who all seem to spend a lot of time loitering unnecessarily in the vicinity of the graveyard. Or has it....
Well, no it hasn't because there's an even more improbable perp and it's wearing a dinner jacket and lives in a crypt. A sort of colonial-tidy Windigo in Abe Lincoln's suit.
So between 0% and 80% before the monster turns up, there are some fairly panty (as in breathing, not underwear) non-sex scenes where everyone gets hot and heavy with their hands in each others undies, although despite all the pawing and writhing there is no actual shagging. The ex-cop heroine, originally portrayed as steely-eyed, hard-ass determined to solve the crime slowly evolves to becomes someone who has regressed to teenager who swoons against her steel chested hunk. There are a lot of woe-is-me scenes as the heroine mourns her brother and then a lot of seemingly out of character drinking in the woods and making out in cars without putting out. If you downgraded the principal characters ages from 20s to teenagers then you'd have YA. If you added more death and a bunch of scarier monsters you'd have horror. Right now it is not possible to jam this into either pigeon hole.
That said, I read this in just over a day so it has that kind of monosodium glutamate Pringles appeal which should not be overlooked as an indication that Sheri Leigh got me hooked regardless of what I thought about the plot.
Graveyard Games is available free on Amazon. I'm not on any of those "what-is-off-amazon-that-is-free-so-i-can-download-it-immediately-and-stuff-it-in-through-my-eyes-and-into-my-brain-box" type forums or groups so, how best to find out about free books on Amazon? Type the word "free" into the search box and you will invariably get a load of books with the word "free" in the title and they normally cost money! I've found the quickest way is to type "0.00" into the search parameters et voila. FreEbooks. Lovely. Or not.
As well as free books there are other things that I like. Coffee which is extra strong, yasai itame with extra chunks of tofu and most importantly in this case, books which seem to promise untold monstrous horrors which actually have monsters in them. And this brings me, after much prevarication to Graveyard Games.
There was a decided lack of monster based action. Victims, yes. Monster, no. In fact the monster only put in what i felt was a moderately underwhelming appearance at the 80% mark and this had me stamping my feet and shouting because i signed up for monsters godammit! But of course I kept reading because when you've waited this long for the monster to show up, it's rude to leave or throw the book down in a big huff and storm off, he's here now so you might as well get to know him.
The distilled premise is that small town girl who had made it as a big city cop, returns to said small town after being framed for a crime she did not commit. She's fit and the crime is vice. After all, what better after-hours use for a cops uniform than a little extra curricular fantasy fulfilment as a high class call girl? Still with me?
She returns home after her brother is killed in a vicious attack, to find that he is not the only victim, but the police aren't too concerned. Allegedly a bobcat with a serious case of the munchies has started snacking on the local populace, who all seem to spend a lot of time loitering unnecessarily in the vicinity of the graveyard. Or has it....
Well, no it hasn't because there's an even more improbable perp and it's wearing a dinner jacket and lives in a crypt. A sort of colonial-tidy Windigo in Abe Lincoln's suit.
So between 0% and 80% before the monster turns up, there are some fairly panty (as in breathing, not underwear) non-sex scenes where everyone gets hot and heavy with their hands in each others undies, although despite all the pawing and writhing there is no actual shagging. The ex-cop heroine, originally portrayed as steely-eyed, hard-ass determined to solve the crime slowly evolves to becomes someone who has regressed to teenager who swoons against her steel chested hunk. There are a lot of woe-is-me scenes as the heroine mourns her brother and then a lot of seemingly out of character drinking in the woods and making out in cars without putting out. If you downgraded the principal characters ages from 20s to teenagers then you'd have YA. If you added more death and a bunch of scarier monsters you'd have horror. Right now it is not possible to jam this into either pigeon hole.
That said, I read this in just over a day so it has that kind of monosodium glutamate Pringles appeal which should not be overlooked as an indication that Sheri Leigh got me hooked regardless of what I thought about the plot.
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April 1, 2013Okay. I know I'm picky, or at least not a typical reader, but seriously? There are parts of this book that are pretty great--monsters, I always like, and the heroine as a fallen cop was a great start--and parts I loathe. If you can't anticipate the villain right away, and roll your eyes immediately and continue until they're making it hard to read aaaaaaaall the way through to the predictable end, I want to have a chat (not in a an-I'm-so-smart way, but I am genuinely curious). This story has been told a dozen times and I am sick of the pitiable pseudo-villain, the Native origins of the unconquerable evil, and the No I Don't Want to Have Sex But Okay Scene. Gross. The Mystery Gay was kind of cool, but went nowhere fast, and got a double stereotype whammy tacked on for good measure. Also and PS: Cancer does not begat AIDS, nor the other way around.
I am kind of hoping those are spoilerish enough to discourage the thoroughly ambivalent. Some might call my compulsion to read virtually anything a flaw, and there were parts of this I enjoyed; in particular the main character and the gory graveyard climax... But.
I am kind of hoping those are spoilerish enough to discourage the thoroughly ambivalent. Some might call my compulsion to read virtually anything a flaw, and there were parts of this I enjoyed; in particular the main character and the gory graveyard climax... But.
July 23, 2025
Graveyards
While there were several times we were in the graveyard at all different times, I'm not sure any games were played. Dares, drinking, and death sure. But no games.
A soild read, it had some interesting characters and ideas but there was almost as much I didn't really care for as I did.
While there were several times we were in the graveyard at all different times, I'm not sure any games were played. Dares, drinking, and death sure. But no games.
A soild read, it had some interesting characters and ideas but there was almost as much I didn't really care for as I did.
November 20, 2011
Luckily this book was free, that is all I can say. But before I go further, I did read this book in a day. I liked the beginning and thought that it was a gripping read. But then about 1/2 way to 3/4 of the way to the end, it started to get, for lack of a better word, weird. I think the "genre" of this book also added to the "wtf" ending. In the beginning, it was more of a drama/mystery, then progressed to a romance, then to paranormal, then to horror...it was hard to differentiate between what the author was trying to accomplish. I think that it would have been okay if right from the beginning, the author would have given more of a hint to what would be happening in the end, but all of a sudden it starts to resembles a low budget, B-horror film.
My other complaint is that the characters are supposed to be in their late twenties (some are even married with kids, etc.), but they all act like they are in high school! This just made it that much harder for the characters to be believable.
The only redeeming part of this book was that the author had decent writing and knew how to keep the story progressing (even though it was progressing to a terrible ending). It was free, but I won't ever be reading it again.
My other complaint is that the characters are supposed to be in their late twenties (some are even married with kids, etc.), but they all act like they are in high school! This just made it that much harder for the characters to be believable.
The only redeeming part of this book was that the author had decent writing and knew how to keep the story progressing (even though it was progressing to a terrible ending). It was free, but I won't ever be reading it again.
February 3, 2012
This book took a long time to get to its inevitable end. It wasn't bad, but it also didn't shine in any particular way. There were a lot of plodding conversations, and while this book falls into the horror/supernatural genre, it's mostly about grief and grieving.
There was finally, a little bit of action towards the end, but it was almost as if it was a rush-job. The author spent a lot of time, as I said, creating characters more through conversation than any other literary tool. Most annoying was Sam, who stuttered terribly, which is carried through in conversations. I know I've read books where other characters stuttered, and I know she was trying to convey his issues and his social ostracism because of it, but mostly, it was just disturbing. I found myself skimming through the conversationsational bits (between all characters)because they could just be tedious and predictable.
This was one of my first indie-published reads and it was terribly formatted and edited. I'm not sure if the conversational formatting was intentional or just bad, but the indents were weird and inconsistent throughout the book. Editing was poor in terms of spelling, punctuation, missing/added words, etc.
The story itself possessed some good, interesting bits, but the author seemed to lose the threads. For instance, there is some hint that the town authorities "know" what's really behind the killings in the beginning of the story, how it's an election year and that could be the reason for the cover-up, but by the end, that story-line is completely dropped for the predictable outcome. What was, I think, intended to be a mystery, is so completely not a mystery. Almost as if Sheri Leigh decided to change genres in mid-write, not successfully, unfortunately.
There was finally, a little bit of action towards the end, but it was almost as if it was a rush-job. The author spent a lot of time, as I said, creating characters more through conversation than any other literary tool. Most annoying was Sam, who stuttered terribly, which is carried through in conversations. I know I've read books where other characters stuttered, and I know she was trying to convey his issues and his social ostracism because of it, but mostly, it was just disturbing. I found myself skimming through the conversationsational bits (between all characters)because they could just be tedious and predictable.
This was one of my first indie-published reads and it was terribly formatted and edited. I'm not sure if the conversational formatting was intentional or just bad, but the indents were weird and inconsistent throughout the book. Editing was poor in terms of spelling, punctuation, missing/added words, etc.
The story itself possessed some good, interesting bits, but the author seemed to lose the threads. For instance, there is some hint that the town authorities "know" what's really behind the killings in the beginning of the story, how it's an election year and that could be the reason for the cover-up, but by the end, that story-line is completely dropped for the predictable outcome. What was, I think, intended to be a mystery, is so completely not a mystery. Almost as if Sheri Leigh decided to change genres in mid-write, not successfully, unfortunately.
June 5, 2011
I couldn't really choose shelves for this book because this book didn't know what it wanted to be.
It starts out as dramatic story about Dusty, a cop who has returned to her hometown to mourn her brother who has been killed.
It tries to be a romance at times, but that doesn't really work either...
The last bit is a horror story, with a monster in a cemetary that we never really figure out.
I got this free on ibooks, and probably would never have read it if not for that.
It starts out as dramatic story about Dusty, a cop who has returned to her hometown to mourn her brother who has been killed.
It tries to be a romance at times, but that doesn't really work either...
The last bit is a horror story, with a monster in a cemetary that we never really figure out.
I got this free on ibooks, and probably would never have read it if not for that.
May 16, 2011
This was free on my Kindle and now I know why. Not the best book I've ever read, but at least it was a quick read.
December 10, 2012
In the book, Dusty has to leave her job as a police officer because of suspicion in her current case, in addition to the fact that her twin brother died in the graveyard. When she goes home, she realizes that her local police people aren't being totally honest with her so she finds herself going against her natural instinct by talking to her brother's best friend, who is really shady, in order to find out what really happened to her brother.
I liked this book because there was mystery and adventure, but honestly, it was really easy to get bored with it.
It wasn't a 'stay-up-all-night-page-turner' but it was a pretty decent book. So, if you like books about death, police stuff, and internal conflict you might like this, unless you're me, then you'll find it decent.
I liked this book because there was mystery and adventure, but honestly, it was really easy to get bored with it.
It wasn't a 'stay-up-all-night-page-turner' but it was a pretty decent book. So, if you like books about death, police stuff, and internal conflict you might like this, unless you're me, then you'll find it decent.
July 5, 2011
Fairly competent mystery/horror story, marred by naivete about AIDS in the year 2006. Author Shari Leigh has one character, a savvy, young attorney, coming home to die from the ailment. In these days of protease inhbitors and drug cocktails, it seems uninformed to not at least say the character had tried these treatments and they didn't work for him. It simply did not strike a credible note that someone would return home to die from AIDS in 2006, when most people are managing the virus, rather than dying from it. If the book had been set in 1986 or even 1991, this might have seemed more plausible. Worse, the AIDS angle was not even necessary to the story.
February 2, 2014
I noticed all the negative reviews before I started reading this book but it didn't discourage me one bit and I'm super happy that it didn't!! I LOVED this book. It's an eBook I downloaded from iBooks but I'd love to have a hard copy for my collection.
I thought the story had very well developed characters and was well written. It was a mystery, thriller, paranormal, horror, and love story all in one - my favorite. I will definitely be reading more books from this author.
I thought the story had very well developed characters and was well written. It was a mystery, thriller, paranormal, horror, and love story all in one - my favorite. I will definitely be reading more books from this author.
June 30, 2011
This was a free book on iBooks so I thought I would try it. I really didn't get interested in it until I was a third of the way through. I was entertained for a while until the big secret was revealed. The surprise was so stupid and b-movie I almost quit reading. Really the only reason I didn't is because it drives me nuts not to finish a book. I wouldn't recommend it.
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September 12, 2011Somewhat interesting but a big waste of time! Too bad I'm one of those people who 'has' to finish any book I start. Free Kindle material-no wonder!
March 11, 2016
Awesome
This is a great book to be read, it will have you guessing, right up to the very end of it
This is a great book to be read, it will have you guessing, right up to the very end of it
July 31, 2019
1.5 stars.
I'd had this book on my kindle for 7 years and finally decided to read it. I really wish I hadn't bothered. The premise was good but this book didn't deliver. It was neither one thing or another and couldn't seem to decide what genre It belonged to. It should have been horror I'm guessing, but wasn't spooky enough, it read like young adult but with sex. I also had a real problem with the author using the word "spastic" to describe one of the characters. It also seemed like the author left the prologue or a few chapters out of the beginning of the book - the "story" just starts with no real sense of what happened to Nick. This book could have been so creepy but fell really flat imo.
I'd had this book on my kindle for 7 years and finally decided to read it. I really wish I hadn't bothered. The premise was good but this book didn't deliver. It was neither one thing or another and couldn't seem to decide what genre It belonged to. It should have been horror I'm guessing, but wasn't spooky enough, it read like young adult but with sex. I also had a real problem with the author using the word "spastic" to describe one of the characters. It also seemed like the author left the prologue or a few chapters out of the beginning of the book - the "story" just starts with no real sense of what happened to Nick. This book could have been so creepy but fell really flat imo.
January 10, 2018
Graveyard Games' starts off as a promising book - a women comes to her home-town to solve the crime of her brother's death and is confronted by her past. The book flows well, although the writing style jars in places - with Dusty seemingly written as a 13 year old girl in places and not the ex-cop that she should be. The ending is what really lets this book down as it leans towards the supernatural, with no previous hints or clues that makes for an odd shock to readers who felt they wanted/were going to get a more realistic, gritty ending.
Overall I got it for free and it is an ok read but is let down in places.
Overall I got it for free and it is an ok read but is let down in places.
August 8, 2019
I gave up on this one because reminded me of what I hate about horror books. Mostly, it's the stupidity of the supposedly intelligent characters who put themselves in dangerous places at dangerous times because, um, the plot needs thrills? Also, the predictability of the plots, the cardboard characters, and the indifferent writing. I just couldn't make it through.
June 25, 2021
Poor attempt at a supernatural horror
Shallow characters, a mix of plot lines which don't seem to go anywhere. A ridiculous explanation of a lifelong hatred. Don't bother with this book!
Shallow characters, a mix of plot lines which don't seem to go anywhere. A ridiculous explanation of a lifelong hatred. Don't bother with this book!
February 3, 2023
I’m really not sure what to think. It feels like there are two incomplete books here. Either one could be good individually with some work… But together it just didn’t work. I got this book years ago and never read it so I figured I’d check it out… I might not do something like that again.
February 11, 2018
Good Book!
August 1, 2018
Interesting read
September 3, 2018
Good
This book was interesting enough to make you not want to put it down. Fast read. Nice ending. Worth reading
This book was interesting enough to make you not want to put it down. Fast read. Nice ending. Worth reading
November 27, 2018
Left too many things unexplained.
May 2, 2019
Engrossing
A little slow starting and then all of a sudden your hooked. And you stay hooked until the very end.
A little slow starting and then all of a sudden your hooked. And you stay hooked until the very end.
February 29, 2020
Was good if not a little slow and came to an end very abruptly
October 20, 2022
Although I sort of saw it coming, I wasn’t quite satisfied with the ending. It’s hard to put my finger on why exactly. It wasn’t TERRIBLE it just wasn’t great.
June 12, 2019
Mystery turned paranormal. A talking half-man half-animal 'thing' wearing a three-piece suit? Just plain awful.
October 20, 2014
Dusty is a cop, a detective working vice in Chicago. And then she gets suspended, and on top of that her twin brother is killed. A bobcat, they say. She returns home for the funeral and quickly decides that it was no bobcat. But why won't the sheriff tell her anything? And what's with her brother's best friend Shane, for whom Dusty has long held a special hatred? And if it wasn't a bobcat, then what was it?
This was my second foray into free Smashwords ebooks, and I find myself much more pleased with this one. Which is not to say it's perfect, obviously. There are a few details and events that just feel extraneous here. The characters seem to have gotten away from the author a little bit at times; there are relationships that just don't work the way we're told they do. There's too much time spent setting up what you already know: that this is no bobcat's work. (It's some kind of rule of paranormal fiction, I think. Anything that is alleged to be an animal attack must be the work of something paranormal. Embrace it and use it; you don't need to act like we don't know this.) Dusty gets a little useless at times, sometimes in ways that are kind of surprising given that she supposedly worked vice in Chicago for a year, which background I cannot quite bring myself to believe anyway. There's a sex scene that I think is supposed to be edgy and intense, but manages to come off as very rapey. I don't have a good sense for the setting beyond "some small town somewhere in America". The epilogue is maybe a little strained and overdone. It's got its faults.
So it's not great literature. Fortunately, that's not what I was looking for. I was looking for a fun, quick, light summer read. And I got that. It might not be the next brilliant original horror story, but it's reasonably well-plotted. Mostly. A common compliment to the novel in Goodreads reviews seems to be that the ending is unexpected -- I disagree, but in a good way. I think it was totally what I expected, but what I mean by that is that the author did a good job of dropping the right clues at the right time. I was rather fond of a few of the characters (other than Dusty), and was impressed with how much characterization the author managed for dead twin Nick despite his not actually appearing in the novel. I also felt like her portrayal of Dusty's grief for Nick was really effective. She paid a lot of attention to the details there, the little things that make it feel real.
I paid nothing for it, and I'm quite happy with the purchase price. I had no expectations, and thus was not disappointed. It was fun. Dear free ebooks: Let's do this again sometime. Love and kisses, me.
This was my second foray into free Smashwords ebooks, and I find myself much more pleased with this one. Which is not to say it's perfect, obviously. There are a few details and events that just feel extraneous here. The characters seem to have gotten away from the author a little bit at times; there are relationships that just don't work the way we're told they do. There's too much time spent setting up what you already know: that this is no bobcat's work. (It's some kind of rule of paranormal fiction, I think. Anything that is alleged to be an animal attack must be the work of something paranormal. Embrace it and use it; you don't need to act like we don't know this.) Dusty gets a little useless at times, sometimes in ways that are kind of surprising given that she supposedly worked vice in Chicago for a year, which background I cannot quite bring myself to believe anyway. There's a sex scene that I think is supposed to be edgy and intense, but manages to come off as very rapey. I don't have a good sense for the setting beyond "some small town somewhere in America". The epilogue is maybe a little strained and overdone. It's got its faults.
So it's not great literature. Fortunately, that's not what I was looking for. I was looking for a fun, quick, light summer read. And I got that. It might not be the next brilliant original horror story, but it's reasonably well-plotted. Mostly. A common compliment to the novel in Goodreads reviews seems to be that the ending is unexpected -- I disagree, but in a good way. I think it was totally what I expected, but what I mean by that is that the author did a good job of dropping the right clues at the right time. I was rather fond of a few of the characters (other than Dusty), and was impressed with how much characterization the author managed for dead twin Nick despite his not actually appearing in the novel. I also felt like her portrayal of Dusty's grief for Nick was really effective. She paid a lot of attention to the details there, the little things that make it feel real.
I paid nothing for it, and I'm quite happy with the purchase price. I had no expectations, and thus was not disappointed. It was fun. Dear free ebooks: Let's do this again sometime. Love and kisses, me.
May 16, 2013
After reading other reviews I was all set to tear into this book but I've finished it and it's not terrible. Boring mostly. I think the last %20 was pretty good, up to that point most of the words were centered around just dealing with life and falling in love and not really much else. Granted the style could use some work, and an editor, but there are structural things that really need to be addressed. Like other's said, once you get to the part where Shane tells her what happened it sorta kicks into 'Let's kick monster ass!' mode. And I wish the monster had been throughout the book so we could see the characters grow more and more scared. Most of the fight and as others said, the conversations, never really gave much info other than 'Yep, this is how this conversation would go'.
I liked the sex with the guns on the bed, that was a pretty good high point, and Shane telling her Nicks real secret, that was handled very well. But seriously, Nick couldn't tell his own twin he was gay? And people thought a bobcat could turn someone inside out? And Shane waited that long to tell her because..... Like I said, I wish it was blended together better and had something to say other than 'RAWR monster!' Was the father supposed to be punishment for hunting on the Native lands? It seemed like he was trying to find the talismans, or maybe he just found them because the spirits were punishing him? It's fine since it was free but I'd look elsewhere for hotter sex, more creative violence and more thought provoking monsters.
I liked the sex with the guns on the bed, that was a pretty good high point, and Shane telling her Nicks real secret, that was handled very well. But seriously, Nick couldn't tell his own twin he was gay? And people thought a bobcat could turn someone inside out? And Shane waited that long to tell her because..... Like I said, I wish it was blended together better and had something to say other than 'RAWR monster!' Was the father supposed to be punishment for hunting on the Native lands? It seemed like he was trying to find the talismans, or maybe he just found them because the spirits were punishing him? It's fine since it was free but I'd look elsewhere for hotter sex, more creative violence and more thought provoking monsters.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 21, 2011
c2011. Intrigued that this novel was an Epic Award 2011 finalist, an award that I have never heard of before, I did a scanty bit of research and found out that "EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Industry CoalitionTM, was established in 1998 to provide a strong voice for electronic publishing. Once an authors' organization, EPICTM has expanded to include hundreds of professionals from all facets of the electronic publishing industry: authors, publishers, editors, artists, and others. Our members work together in a unique collaboration to further the industry." So, I am still not sure who judges and on what grounds. Oh well, some things in life are not meant to be solved. As can be gathered from the star rating, I did not like this book. Flimsy, flamsy - laboured and contrived - dubious dialogue and, for me, a plot of thin proportions. Of course, it does not help that I dislike plots that are initiated by the death of a loved one and certainly nothing to do with so-called corruption at higher levels. (Its not that I don't think it exists, it just that I don't like to read about it.) This was a free book from Kindle so I suppose it is another case of you get what you pay for. FWFTB: hothead, Chicago, detective, murdered, cemetery. FCN: Dusty, Nick, Shane, Joe, Julia. "Deep inside, though, she felt that it - something- had just begun."
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