This is a difficult book to categorize. Cargill introduces the main characters at an
early age and then jumps to later years without warning. In some ways this is a fable or maybe even a
parable but in others it is a treatise on the occult. The destiny of two children and some long
term payback might be the best description.
Kaycee is a lost little girl living through her dreams and
Colby Stevens is an equally lost young man fighting to be a good person. This is apparently the second book Colby
Stevens is the main protagonist. There
is a minimum of back story on the first book.
I would have liked more back story only because the initial few chapters
of the book are somewhat confusing.
Cargill does a good job depicting despair and
frustration. Equally I found my
emotions tweaked when he takes note of the unstinting love of a golden
retriever. Revenge plays a huge part in
this book but not always in the way the reader anticipates. The plot is a bit of a shell game where you
wonder exactly which shell hides the pea.
I enjoyed the book.
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This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
