Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Frantic by Mike Dellosso [3.5 stars]

This review contains minor spoilers.
Frantic by Mike Dellosso.
Gas station attendent Marny Toogood is enjoying a normal day on the job when an urgent message from a girl in the backseat of a car draws him into a desperate rescue attempt. Now he's on the run with the girl and her brother.
They face cults, kidnapping, and other evils and Marny soon realizes he must let go of his past and surrender all to Christ.

This is turning out to be a hard book for me to review. Because there was a lot I didn't like, but what I did like, I really liked, if that makes sense ;) So I apologize if this is a confusing review.

I think Mike Dellosso is a very good writer. He definitely has a way with words, his descriptions are fascinating and the writing is great. But, I didn't care too much for the story. 
A lot of people are saying this book is fast-paced, but I found it to be somewhat slow. The first half of the book was just the three characters running around and you weren't really introduced to what was going on until about halfway through the book.
I did like the characters, they were interesting.
But what I really didn't like was the supernatural element toward the end, I am not a fan of supernatural type stuff, and considering the first 3/4 or so of the book was not that, and then suddenly they go into this house and this whole supernatural element is added, it didn't make a lot of sense to me.
As soon as the serial killer element was introduced, I figured out who it was. Wasn't very hard considering there weren't a ton of characters in the book, but I was kind of disappointed in that aspect.
But despite all the things I didn't like about this book, William is what this book is all about. William has a gift, faith. That might not seem like much to some, but William is able to do some pretty amazing things. While some things he does lean more towards 'supernatural', the concept of having faith like a child brings on new meaning in this book, and I think Mike Dellosso did a great job of that.

1 comment:

  1. Hmmm, interesting review on this book. It seems to have a good idea for a plot, but I think I'd be frustrated by not really knowing what was going on for so long. I also don't care for supernatural things in books.

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