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Statistics
- Title - Scribbles
- Author - Tommie Lyn
- Genre - Christian/Suspense
- Publication Date - 2009 (No Month Posted)
- Series - None
Preview
Do dreams come true? Megan MacAllister hopes they don't...
Because in Meg's dreams, she kills. Or worries that she does...
Johnny Peyton doesn't believes her fears have basis in reality. At first...
Does she? Or doesn't she? And does she really want to know?
Review
From what I am told, this is the third book Tommie Lyn wrote on her own. She has two other novels before this one and my boss Patrick reviewed one of them already. Since he reviewed that book, I decided it be best to review this book to have like a one-two punch for the same author. Anyways, this book is really good and I finished it in about one week tops since I am more on a fixed 40 hour plus schedule with all the other things in the side unlike any of the other writers here. Nevertheless, I got it done and it is a very good book. First off, I like books with a lot of intrigue and Tommie Lyn did a very good job writing intrigue in this book without having to go overly fancy or dark per say the last book I reviewed or anything by Tim Dorsey which I honestly love, but this book was a fresh change in my honest opinion.
The story talks about a girl named Megan MacAllister who we first meet at the age of eleven. She is somewhat witness to something totally horrible that involved her parents but she has not idea exactly what it may be and how it links to her. It is during her dreams that things get interesting for in her dreams, she dreams of people she doesn't like or probably truly hates and is able to scribble lines on them. Then the next day, she finds that the people she scribbled on are found dead. This is the initial push for the plot for she believes whenever she dreams of scribbling people, they end up dead or hurt or whatever it may be but always in the negative. However, there is a basis why this is happening to her and unlike most author's initial movement to have the character find out why, it is the why that finds her and it makes for an interesting twist in the plot.
This novel is neither super-suspenseful and does a good job not going into my territory of transgressional fiction. I personally loved how each character is unique and well-built from different angles. It is jumpy from character to character but in a way that it fits. It isn't too jumpy per say anything by Chuck Palahniuk in which his novels are famous for before his newer stuff came out. All in all, a very good purchase if you bought the book. Actually more of a casual read and must-have in a Christain bookstore. However, you won't find this book in Barnes & Noble. You have to go to either Amazon or through the author's website so the availability is limited. May also render some of the reviews since a more generic based option brings more of a worldly view upon a book than a specialty print. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it.
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