“My good friends loaned me this book to accompany their personal tale of meeting the author while they were trekking in Ecuador. It was a fun, quick read and I found it intriguing in that Evans seemed to have invented a new sub-genre for Mystery/Suspense, which is Tech-Geek as World Traveler/Unsuspecting Super Sleuth.
Certain aspects of the writing style seemed as if Evans was trying too hard. He tends towards these exclamatory-virtually-underlined-twists-of-phrase that are typically based in pop-culture. Makes sense that the book feel contemporary given the genre twist, I doubt the story will hold up well to time, but they feel like cop-outs.
It was candy enough to make me want to read his follow-up, The Blood Price, which is far superior to Dark Places in that it offers the reader some intriguing historical value in it's contemporary frame-work, but it does have some of the same problems.
I congratulate Evans though for originality and some great plot-twists.”
WallaceJames wrote this review Wednesday, October 11 2006.
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