2.5/5 stars. I liked the build up of this novel, and the idea, but the climax was a letdown.

It's Summer, it's hot, and it's violent. Violence is breaking out all over the town and just a few people are finding it suspicious. Amanda, who had a vision of the first violent act, her best friend, the local newspaper man, and a psychiatrist are all drawn together investigating this outbreak of violence.

I loved the suspense of this. Who could they save? Could they save anyone? And what was happening?

I was disappointed with what they discovered and with how they treated it. In my opinion, the ending wasn't satisfying.

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Not exactly impressed with this one. 47 North gave me my first auto approval from Netgalley and I found this one while having a look at some of the titles were offering. It sounded quite interesting, and got off to a good intriguing start.

As a pointed out by another review of the same book I read, some of the grammar was a bit off, very very long sentences and very long paragraphs as well. Whether it was the formatting on the kindle version I was reading, I don't know, but some paragraphs seemed to be entire pages long.

While the premise was interesting enough, normal small town, summer tourist season kicks off and people start acting weird and going murderously crazy. One teen develops psychic mind reading abilities and can see murders and stuff before it happens. The pacing was also extremely slow. You'd get a nice gory bit, then lots of different characters introduced and long stretches before anything else really happened. It felt...rambling and was off putting. About half way through I got very bored and started skimming through.

Towards the end things picked up in a rash of craziness, but then the actual end was extremely disappointing and I found it to be a total cop out.

So while an interesting idea, didn't work for me. ( )

I won this book from goodreads. It is Dean Koontz type story. Lots of characters to keep track of. Amanda has a violent vision that later comes true. Something strange is happening in this town, what is the cause? ( )

An interesting thriller that tells the story of a small summer-destination town. Something is happening to the people in the town that no one can really explain. A teenager, Amanda might hold the clue.

When I began reading this, it took me a while to get into the story. There are many characters to get to know since the story concerns itself with the whole town, when I did get to know them I felt a part of their story. The author does a good job of realistically dealing with something that could go sort of science fiction or fantasy and kept me guessing about what was really going on until the end. If you like thrillers in the same vein as "The Happening," you will like this. ( )

The book seemed long, and the more I considered it the more it seemed like an early Stephen King novel, before he began providing graphic detail of the evil in his stories. Our author’s story in this book purports to provide an explanation for the summer madness that seems to occasionally inflict itself on a locale, doesn’t not define if it is evil or good, just different. The tale leaves a lot to the perspective of the character and the reader as far as determining good or evil, simply making the case that customary behavior inexplicably changes providing new, unexpected outcomes. Enjoyed the read.