Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The heroine was both unbelievably stupid and unbelievably smart. She read books about the human brain at age six. She did something in the first grade that informs the reader that she isn't the least bit human or even humanoid. She's too weird to like. She's being held prisoner on the third floor of what might be a farmhouse. She and her captor walk down three flights of stairs and end up on the first floor. Shannon Kirk needs to go to the third floor of a building and see how many flights of stairs it takes to get to the first floor. Isn't it obvious? Ms. Kirk is a lawyer, but I wouldn't want her defending me. At night, a kid is told to run to the corner store and buy milk and Sanka and be back by 0700. Huh? Be back by early morning? Clearly that's not what Shannon Kirk intended. The kid makes it back two minutes late, at 0702. As a punishment he is held prisoner in a basement for a full year! Insanity like that is just too weird, too unbelievable. At one point an FBI agent says he's in a "small, small town." Several pages later, ". . . through the town of our destination was an infuriating four-lane 'route' with one billion stoplights." There's really no excuse for mindless nonsense like this in a novel. The author has no grip on the story. Really hate to say it, but this one's a loser. Buy it if you're not interested in humanity or logic and don't mind if novels are snail-paced and just plain stupid.