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mikekaz's review
4.0
The bulk of this book is the novella HUNTING ZOE which is an extension out of the book LOVE LIES DYING. Unfortunately I found LOVE LIES DYING to be significantly stronger and better. HUNTING ZOE involves two friends following the clues to find Zoe, the main character from LOVE LIES DYING. The friends believe that Gerlach based the original story on a real person and are intent on finding her. An interesting premise and it had some promise. There were a couple scenes that had real spook potential. However, I didn't find either friend interesting or engaging enough to care. Then it quickly became apparent that one of them wasn't quite right in the head. The connection to the characters from the first story wasn't here this time. With regards to the other stories in the book, they may have suffered due to bad luck from my side. In between the novella and the stories, I read Kristopher Triana's TOXIC LOVE. An amazing book that I recommend but only if you like intense, graphic stories. Anyway, the intense and graphic nature of that book was still in my mind when I read the rest of this collection. Which meant that the story "Cellcandy" and "Dead of Night" both had minimal impact. Especially since Triana's book was a novel and these were short stories. There just wasn't enough there to start connecting to the characters. The impact was lost. Overall, a good collection but not as strong as I had hoped.
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