So once again I bought a book on a recommend.  You know one of those recommends that state, “hey if you like this…well you’ll like this too.”

And in the beginning, let me tell you, it was love at first read.

I was telling people I knew, that I was reading the scariest book I’ve ever read.  Scariest.  And I was until, you know the near end. 

The near END when I felt betrayed.

This writer, absolutely perfect.  I was right beside these children.  The main character, still love her despite the ending.  Love the kid.

The ending, oh the ending.  I mean we had a perfect set up here, a couple kids whom no one really paid any attention to.  Sure the neighborhood tried to help out but we had a situation where a child new and understood evil, pure evil was out and nobody believed her.  And with good reason in the end because the kid was dead wrong several times.

You know as I sit and write this I guess that is my major beef.  The author betrayed the character, a character that was near perfect if not perfect in every way.  I feel a sense of outrage, let the kid be RIGHT. 

But in the last quarter of the story, the story line is taken away from this very capable young lady and any loose strings that needed to be tidied up were done so – and there were plenty of loose strings to be taken care of – oh the pity of it. 

Would I recommend the book – I don’t know.  I care about my reading friends.  The novel was near perfection for most of the way and then I felt it was pushed for an ending.  Was someone out there pushing that writer to finish.  I’d like to know.  It would be like the bill collector during the writing of Kubla Khan – (and frankly I’m no fan of the romantic poets but that was really too bad)

Okay, yes, I’d recommend it for the sole purpose to know, was anyone else as depressed as me in the end?