I feel like I can't even say anything in this review without spoilers lol this series is so great, I'm sad I put off reading it for so long. It has so many complex characters and false faces. I love so many of the messages this series provides from family to resilience. The ending was messy and complex just like the rest of the books. Loved it. ( )

Easy to read, constant action, only downside was that I don’t think any. Of the characters behavior was believable. It was like a horror movie where you wonder why the victim would walk back in. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. ( )

Always enjoy Richard Laymon. You're guaranteed certain things from him no matter what, including, but not limited to, a pretty young woman in red gym shorts(although other colours are available), at least one sex-in-the-shower scene(or it may just be wishful thinking), large quantities of descriptive text involving the aforementioned red gym shorts girl, usually involving the sensitivity of her nipples or more than likely, the wonderfully clinging quality of her red gym shorts in relation to her pert buttocks!

All this is well and good of course but what about the story? Well, this one's a doozy. It involves a librarian called Jane who finds a strategically placed envelope on her chair which contains money and a little riddle leading her to the next envelope containing more money and another riddle. In fact the money keeps doubling each time as the riddles lead her into more and more dangerous situations.

I had read in various reviews around cyberspace that there's a great twist ending. This confused me since I either missed it, or was too stupid to see it, or was just plain wrongly informed in the first place. MOG(master of games) who's the one leaving all the envelopes and riddles reminds me of another of Richard Laymon's characters from one of his other books. I think it was Blood Games but I can't for the life of me remember his name now. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it can't be linked to that character since there wasn't any reason for it to be so. I don't know.

So leaving aside the slight disappointment with the whole who is MOG? mystery which just fizzled away to nothing really(from what I could see), it was a great ride and featured lots of mentions of breasts, pert buttocks and gym shorts(which were blue and shiny in this instance) rather than the traditional red.

Very good. But I wish the whole MOG thing had been dealt with a little more definitively.

As always with our Mr Laymon, Highly Recommended.
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An interesting premise ruined by unbelievable, two-dimensional characters and horndog writing. Time that would've been better spent fleshing out side characters is instead wasted giving us a minute-by-minute accounting of every single surface that comes into contact with the main character's buttocks or breasts. ( )

This was a really good book. This was my third Richard Laymon book and I have to say it was much better then the first two I read. This book was very gripping and extremely suspenseful. I flew through the last 5 chapters or so, I couldn't stop reading, I needed to know what was going to happen. The ending was very exciting and unexpected. Very enjoyable read. ( )