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A review by lesliekurt
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
4.0
TLDR: Skip the prologue; it is a great story.
Aside from the prologue, it is a great creative story. The author's strength lies in creativity and storytelling. It is done very well in this book.
I am not a fan of purple prose. Not many authors do it well. This author is no exception. The prologue was written like poetry. The prologue added nothing to the story, and reading it to enjoy or understand it is unnecessary. I found the prologue distracting, and it was boring. I almost put the book down within the first few pages. I am so glad I didn't since the rest of the book was written differently. It had a fast pace with no dull moments, which I need when reading a horror novel. The rest of the book was written wonderfully, and I enjoyed it.
There was one error in the book that did bother me a little, and that was Hannah's degrees. Psychiatrists are not PhDs; they are medical doctors. Psychiatrists have an MD or DO degree and undergo a psychiatric residency. However, it would be possible for a person to go through a psychiatric residency and something else (e.g., internal medicine), it would be unlikely. I know it is nitpicking, and it is just fiction, but with just a bit of research and cutting out the prologue, the author would have nailed this one with a 5-star from me.
Aside from the prologue, it is a great creative story. The author's strength lies in creativity and storytelling. It is done very well in this book.
I am not a fan of purple prose. Not many authors do it well. This author is no exception. The prologue was written like poetry. The prologue added nothing to the story, and reading it to enjoy or understand it is unnecessary. I found the prologue distracting, and it was boring. I almost put the book down within the first few pages. I am so glad I didn't since the rest of the book was written differently. It had a fast pace with no dull moments, which I need when reading a horror novel. The rest of the book was written wonderfully, and I enjoyed it.
There was one error in the book that did bother me a little, and that was Hannah's degrees. Psychiatrists are not PhDs; they are medical doctors. Psychiatrists have an MD or DO degree and undergo a psychiatric residency. However, it would be possible for a person to go through a psychiatric residency and something else (e.g., internal medicine), it would be unlikely. I know it is nitpicking, and it is just fiction, but with just a bit of research and cutting out the prologue, the author would have nailed this one with a 5-star from me.