John A. and Marguerite E. W. (aliennightbird) reviewed on 6/15/2009 + 40 more book reviews

I just could not get into the author's writing style. There was a lot of beautiful imagryin the prolog, contrasting a beautiful spring day with the general picture of three young boys heading off for an adventure in the woods, with the hint at the end that they would never grow up.

Then, the story switches to an adult detective who is apparently the only child that was found when the three boys disappeared into the woods.

The problem is, there was way too much description with no action and dialog to inhance. The prolog didn't get to the lost boys for nearly two long pages, and then in just a general way.

Likewise, the adult detective spends most of the first pages of chapter one discussing, again in a general, broad way, why he became a murder squad detective, and discussing his peers. He refered to the cold case of the missing boys, indicating that he was one of them, but again, only reading their files.

I got about 8 pages before I gave up. Without action and dialog (so far, zero dialog!) directly relating to the plot, and with all that rambling thoughts and feelings, it just got to be boring to me.

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