M.L.

Great book, poor narration

Revisado: 10-11-16

The men who narrated this book were great; however, whenever it was time for the women to read (particularly whoever was narrating for Lily) I visibly cringed. The narrator would pause in between sentences making them awkward, taking breaths where it was unnatural and mostly, sounded like she was reading a script. When someone narrates a story, you want it to sound natural, like they're having a conversation. The person narrating Lily did not have a steady flow, but instead, choppy, forced-sounding sentences. The narration almost ruined it for me, but the story was so good, I forced myself to finish.

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Wow.

Revisado: 12-24-15

I can't say enough about this book. It both enthralled and haunted me - not just this book but the whole series. Barry Lyga did an incredible job placing us into the mind of serial killers. Billy Dent will haunt me for some time now. Worthy of more chills than Hannibal Lecter himself. During the whole series, I was rooting for Jasper Dent. Poor guy had a horrible childhood being raised by America's most notorious serial killer. In this book, you find out all of the twists and secrets we've been waiting for since book 1. I promise you that it is well worth the wait and you will not expect it at all. The book ended in a way that I did not expect however, it works for the series - and quite frankly, I'm very happy that it ended this way. All hail Barry Lyga!

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Oh dear goodness...

Revisado: 07-08-13

Oh dear goodness...

First of all, the Audible narrator was absolutely AMAZING! She did an incredible job and had a separate voice for each of the characters. I felt so bad that she had to narrate such an annoying story. If she's the narrator of any other books, I would be very happy to read them.

I'm so overwhelmingly disappointed. This story had SOOOOO much potential. While the story line isn't as unique as I hoped, it was still interesting enough to get me to keep reading. The story revolves around a summer camp full of supernatural beings who are trying to learn about themselves and their powers. Kylie, after being caught at an unruly teen party, was sent there by her mother and her psychologist. The interesting twist? The camp leaders suspect that Kylie is a supernatural, but they don't know what species. Sounds cool, right?

Well aside from the central plot, we have...hmmm...let me estimate...or round off...about 5 thousand other completely unrelated and irrelevant side stories happening simultaneously. Should we name off a few of them? Of course we should!

1. Kylie's friend thinks she's pregnant. We spend a large chunk of time in the story hearing about Kylie's friend's dilemma. After a few pages worth of "Oh my gosh, how could she get herself into this?" we find out that Sarah pregnant/not pregnant state. And then what happens? NOTHING!! Absolutely nothing because the author just decides to delete Sarah's character from the book. Intentional? I think not. Or at least, I hope it wasn't intentional. I'm sticking to believing that maybe the author just forgot about it.

2. Kylie's parents getting a divorce. Okay, I understand how this one is relevant due to a twist we find out about near the end of the book. And I do understand that divorce can be devastating to the child. However, is it necessary for us to hear about the divorce every few pages of the story? NO! It got to the point where I swore if divorce was mentioned one more time I'd slap someone. Thankfully, no one was near me when I continued to read the book, otherwise someone I know would be fairly pissed off at me for bruising their face.

3. The love triangle. OH MY FLIPPING GOODNESS! I don't know if I've ever read anything more annoying in my life! Okay, quite possibly I have, but seriously, this has to place in my list of top 5 annoying books. The way that she describes how she loves all three guys is nauseating. Trey, Lucas, and Derek: All 3 of them make her feel things she's never felt before, they're all incredibly hot, they all have perfect bodies (which she does not fail to mention about 500 times) and she has absolutely no problem with making out with all three of them and leading them all on. I had the most problem with this aspect of the story. I mean seriously, what girl does that? She whines about all of them because they all make her mad at some point but eventually, she goes right back to being all googly eyed and raging hormones when it comes to all three. Talk about wanting to slap someone.

I primarily planned to give this book 1 star. The only reason why I gave this book an extra star is because I think it deserves some credit for what it could've been. With a good editor who's not afraid to tell the author "ARE YOU CRAZY?!? THIS JUST DOES NOT WORK!" and with an author who is willing to scrap bad ideas and come up with new ones that make sense , this book could've been an amazing 5 star story.

I guess now we all know that "should've," "could've," "would've," has no effect for the present.

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