What a great book to kick of my October 2016 reading! It was certainly a creepy read, though I wish there had been more horror involved because a few scenes seemed a bit cheesy to me. When I read that this book was, "Writing in the tradition of Stephen King” I was really looking forward to being scared; But there wasn’t anything about this book that actually scared me. I guess that’s why my library labeled it “Mystery” rather than horror…

There is a love story thrown in as well, but the love factor was very meh for me. Some parts were cute, but I got bored with it pretty quickly. Possibly because I just didn’t care about the characters?

The organization of the story was really neat! It was from the point of view of someone watching a security feed. So the “scene changes" were very abrupt- one paragraph you were watching the camera feed of one character, and in the next paragraph you’ve swapped over to another camera feed and character. There were also instances of “split screen” that I absolutely loved, where the page was split into 2-6 columns showing different camera feeds.

For awhile there, I was getting annoyed at some repetition. But then I figured out that the author was repeating some things to make it clear which character you were “watching.”

The plot was semi-weak. The major question of the book never gets resolved, but I tried to just appreciate the story for what it was.

Overall, a good read! I would recommend it, but I wouldn’t say it was scary or even that it’s a book that is going to stick with me for very long.

Favorite lines:

Vivica, on the fifteenth floor, is telling the stain in Spanish that it is no match for her, and she is right.

Only the sound of the ocean can be heard. It's a beautiful sound. It's the sound of life.