Helpful Score: 3
Too slow for my taste and completely lacking in scares. The final confrontation steals way to much from Stephen King's Firestarter.
Same basic premise as Stephen King's "Firestarter" (little girl with unique ability being exploited by the Bad Guys), but engaging nonetheless.
Another story of what the powerful would do if they could harvest all the hidden power of the mind. Sarah, a tormented 10 year old girl locked away in a psychiatric facility since she was an infant is manipulated to cure cancer and generate psi genes for use by phamraceutical companies or the military . Her inability to control her "gift" leads to multiple deaths and thus low self-esteem!
A grad student is manipulated unwittingly to aid the girl in opening up from her catatonic state and developing her gift while unknowingly becoming part of the experiment as a psi gene carrier herself. All ends well after an over-the-top confrontation at the end of the book as the grad student rescues Sarah from the clutches of the evil psych professionals, investors, and the special ops unit sent to abscond with her to a secret lab.
An exciting psych thriller, but the multiple incidents of blowing up buildings and lighting people on fire were too much for me. Give me some good levitation demonstrations and I will gladly admit there is a power within that we neither understand nor should seek to control.
A grad student is manipulated unwittingly to aid the girl in opening up from her catatonic state and developing her gift while unknowingly becoming part of the experiment as a psi gene carrier herself. All ends well after an over-the-top confrontation at the end of the book as the grad student rescues Sarah from the clutches of the evil psych professionals, investors, and the special ops unit sent to abscond with her to a secret lab.
An exciting psych thriller, but the multiple incidents of blowing up buildings and lighting people on fire were too much for me. Give me some good levitation demonstrations and I will gladly admit there is a power within that we neither understand nor should seek to control.
