Helpful Score: 2
As part of a book reviewer program that Thomas Nelson Publishing Company offers, I agreed to read and review The Unseen by T. L. Hines. This is not the kind of book that I would normally read, but I decided to plow ahead with it and see what it had to offer. The following is my review.
The book begins very slowly and yet grabs your attention from the very beginning. Who could resist reading about someone that finds it perfectly normal to hide in the spaces between floors of a building and other tight spaces to "watch" people. Well that is what we find out from the very beginning Lucas does for fun. He spends his time observing people from a hidden location, usually their place of employment. If he feels there is a "connection" between himself and his subject then he takes something that belongs to them as a totem to add to his collection. He is a loner that moves around to different locations in the city to live; anywhere from a sewer room to an abandoned office, etc. I found myself loosing interest in the book about a third of the way through because this is all that has been discussed at this point. Then Hines kicked it up a notch.
The rest of the book was like being on a literary roller coaster. There were times when I would read a few chapters and put the book down and then there were times when I just had to know what came next. The last third of the book had me hooked to the end. Lucas finds himself in a big mess because he has gotten involved with this whole group of "watchers" called the Creep Club. His attempt at intervening in one of their projects, a man and her husband, just makes things worse for him. When he finds himself with only 36 hours to live, Lucas must really make miracles happen with no clues as to how. If you want to know what happens to Lucas then I suggest you go buy the book. As for me, I give it a 7 out of 10.
The book begins very slowly and yet grabs your attention from the very beginning. Who could resist reading about someone that finds it perfectly normal to hide in the spaces between floors of a building and other tight spaces to "watch" people. Well that is what we find out from the very beginning Lucas does for fun. He spends his time observing people from a hidden location, usually their place of employment. If he feels there is a "connection" between himself and his subject then he takes something that belongs to them as a totem to add to his collection. He is a loner that moves around to different locations in the city to live; anywhere from a sewer room to an abandoned office, etc. I found myself loosing interest in the book about a third of the way through because this is all that has been discussed at this point. Then Hines kicked it up a notch.
The rest of the book was like being on a literary roller coaster. There were times when I would read a few chapters and put the book down and then there were times when I just had to know what came next. The last third of the book had me hooked to the end. Lucas finds himself in a big mess because he has gotten involved with this whole group of "watchers" called the Creep Club. His attempt at intervening in one of their projects, a man and her husband, just makes things worse for him. When he finds himself with only 36 hours to live, Lucas must really make miracles happen with no clues as to how. If you want to know what happens to Lucas then I suggest you go buy the book. As for me, I give it a 7 out of 10.
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