From
the author of the Alexa Montgomery Saga, comes a book that will take you into
the mind of a genuine psychopath, the lives of six ordinary people, and the
world of a very special girl named Joe.
Joe
is seemingly an ordinary college student. She works, studies and reads. But in
between these activities Joe has a gift that promises to add a dose of color to
her life at any given moment. Joe sees things before they happen. Bad things,
and the worst thing she has ever faced is just around the corner. Someone is
planning a massacre at the college university that Joe attends, and the only
person with a hope of stopping the psychopath is her.
Oh,
the beauty of foresight. More like a curse. Joe has four days to figure out the
mystery, make plans to take down the psycho, and save the lives of people.
People like you and me. Ordinary people.
Pages: 336
Gendre: Thriller
Score: 3/5
Review:
“Evil is not just a thing of fairytales. Evil is real and it walks among us. Evil is jealousy and hate and fear and fire.”
So...this book wasn't
what I expected. When I first started it, I had a good feeling that I’m gonna
like it and that I’ll finish it very fast. The subject seemed really
interesting and it capivate me from the first pages...until the spark went
dead. I don’t know what happened but my interest in this book decreased more
and more in the process. There were many narrative plans, who disorientated me.
To many descriptions, to much rambling...I don’t know. Joe, the main character,
socked me in the first place because she had so much potential and I tough
she’s gonna bring me a lot of twisted feelings! I don’t say, the points of view
were really good, authentic, but after so many pages you get bored and
confused. I always had the weird sensation that the book will never end! And it
actually ended really slow...
I like a good thriller
from time to time but this one didn't had that spark who should keep me glued
to the book.
But it had good parts,
too. The writing style is nice, easy to read, especially in the first part of
the book when you need to understand the action and make connections. You
always have that weird sensation on your spine and live in a constant panic,
never knowing what's gonna happen in the next chapter.
The ending, even if it
was enigmatic, was on my taste.
The biggest minus of
this book is that it reveals too much information and steals from the
beautifulness of a thriller; you can make connections too easy and figure the
truth too soon, and that is a not a quality when we talk about this genre.
Anyway, overall it was
a good book and I would recommend it to the eaders who want to enjoy a book
with a lot of twists and points of view, but indicating that they need to be
rested and focus to make sense out of it.
