This was a relatively cheap (!!!) "novella" from one of my favourite authors that I bought for the Kindle. It was very readable adnd overall pretty good. The story of a boy who failed to recognise or stop the sacrifice of siblings by an eveil cult. His incredibly beautiful mother took a string of lovers in order to get what she needed to get by in life but one day hit the jackpot and married one of the world's richest men. That man appears to have been a fanatical occultist who sacrifced her children one by one starting with the smallest and working up but not quite managing it with the oldest boy. The story is written in two parts, similar to many others these day with almost alternativing chapters, one written in the present the next in the past and so on. Whilst a good story and an intriguing prospect I felt it could have been so much more (maybe as a full novel it would be?). The ending was a little disappointing and left much unexplained and the real potential depth untapped. Much better than I could ever manage though ;-) Dean's still one of my fav authors :-)
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