Caught in the Light

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Summary: Rivetting read
Review: THIS IS THE FOURTH BOOK I'VE READ FROM GODDARD'S STRING OF PRECIOUS BOOKS, HAVING PREVIOSLY BEEN INTRIGUED BY 'PAST CARING', 'INTO THE BLUE', 'TAKE NO FAREWELL'. ALL HIS BOOKS ARE INCREDIBILE, AND FURTHER ENHANCED IN THEIR VALUE BY AN EXQUISITE, RICH USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I HAVE JUST FINISHED READING 'CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT' ... VERY MYSTERIOUS, SPELLBOUNDING AND IMAGINATIVE LIKE ALL HIS SERIES, EVEN THOUGH AT TIMES A TEENY WEENY BIT CONFUSING AND NOT AS REALISTIC AS I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED FROM GODDARD. I THOUGHT THE STORYTELLING WAS INTELLIGENTLY WEAVED THROUGH A SPRINKLING OF WELL RESEARCHED HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION OF PHOTOGHRAPHY. I GAVE IT 4 STARS BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT THE CHARACTERS WERE TOO SLIPPERY, ESPECIALLY ERIS AND COULD HAVE PERHAPS BEEN MORE FOCUSED. HOWEVER THE THEME OF BETRAYAL, MALICE AND REVENGE WERE GIVEN THE CUNNING TWIST THAT KEPT ME HOOKED TILL THE LAST PAGE. THE FINALE WAS SURPRISING AND IS WORTH CRAVING FOR. DO NOT SKIP PAGES OR PEEP AT THE LAST THREE CHAPTERS!

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Summary: A Shaggy Dog Story
Review: This was a wonderful book up until the last section where it seemed as if the author had written himself into a corner. It was almost as if someone else, someone in a hurry to be done with it all, had finished the story. The cleverness and imaginativeness of the rest of the book were swept unconvincingly aside leaving the reader feeling cheated for having been carried along only to find that the author apparently grew bored or unable to explain what he had so masterfully begun. He halfheartedly answered a few questions raised and then got bored and wrote "the end."