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The Dark

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The first half of this book- well, lets be fair here- the first three quarters of the book really hooked me and I read through them in one day. Yet after that, the book suffered, because it took on a route extremely similar to The Devil's Advocate. It's as if Mr. Neiderman really enjoyed his previous work to the point of making it heavily influence this one. If it hadn't been for the heavy "Advocate" shadow on this book, it would have got a much higher rating than it did. It nevertheless is an effective page turner.

This is probably a bit of a harsher review than I'd normally give, but I really did not enjoy this book, for several reasons. First, it is painfully similar to The Devil's Advocate toward the end. Second, the main antagonist, Jules Bois, is hardly in the book at all (when basically everything that is happening has to do with him...). Next, Grant is a psychiatrist, and most of the information about psychiatry in the book is inaccurate. I know, not highly important or anything, but it definitely had a hand in my dislike of the book. And well, the book over all failed to keep my interest; I finished it more out of duty than for fun.

I think if I had read this book before The Devil's Advocate, I might not have been so critical of it. But in all honesty, I just didn't like it. It started out strong and interesting, but then went in a slow downward spiral of nothingness. It was a great idea for a novel, but it just didn't work out well.

I loved this book a lot. I found it well written, dark, and suspenseful. It literally had me on the edge of my seat, and I checked it out several times from the library at my high school. If I could actually get my hands on this book again, i'd be happy as hell. *^^* I cannot wait to read "Devil's Advocate", because if it's as good as this book (the movie was *excellent*, so i'm sure i'll love it), i'll hope to own it as well. *^_^*