Regret

What an original story! The author takes the reader on a strange journey beginning with hope, shame, grief and finally regret. The plot will grip you and force you to turn pages long after you should have stopped and gotten around to living your own life and completing your necessary daily tasks. I was intrigued by the details given in each scene that makes you feel like you are actually watching them and not reading about them. Very well done!

I think the author had a great idea for the story in the book. I think where it went wrong was that it was just too slow and it just took forever for things to get moving; things did not happen fast enough to hold my attention. I also think the main character seemed kind of shallow to me. He obviously cared about his wife, but I really saw no passion in him for anything else, no reason for him doing the things he was doing, the murders he was committing. I needed to see some more emotion from him, make him more real. The other characters in the book were well developed and likable; however, I had a hard time thinking they were stupid enough to not know Dan was a killer. I also need to make comment on the editing, as many other reviews show more did here. It was pretty poor to the point of being a distraction to the reader. As I said before, the story in general could have been good but it just got sidelined by too much fluff. show less

My Kindle version had several annoying spelling inaccuracies, ie break instead of brake; phased instead of fazed, words which would get through a spellcheck but possibly the author isn't too strong on spelling. Though the pace was quite fast - I read the book in two days - the lead character (who, strangely as the book progressed, appeared to be the author writing about himself) wasn't all that likeable, self-centred and not particularly intelligent.