A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Laurie-J
This short novella is an enjoyable read. I was caught up quickly in the mystery and liked the overall tone and voice of the story. The sentences were constructed well and ran through my mind with an almost musical cadence. The locket has a beautiful appearance, but seems also to harbor a malevolent, evil force of some sort. That malignancy is unleashed once the locket is worn, and the metal actually touches skin. The transformation is immediate; a radical personality change overpowers the wearer. The inexplicable attacks seemed so random, but coincidentally a piece of jewelry, a locket, is always mentioned in the police reports. Years pass until one detective decides to track down evidence regarding the bizarre similarities. Much of this story focuses on what happens after. I would have liked the back story of the strange locket to have been explained in greater detail. How was it made? What happened that it became so corrupt? The story easily held my interest, but at the end, I felt like I knew nothing more about the item than I knew at the beginning. For me, that was a disappointment.
Nov 17, 2011 | B004V9IT9U
5 - Rare Top Pick | 4.5 - Top Pick | 4 - I Liked It | 3.5 - Enjoyable | 3 - OK | 2.5 - It just didn't click
Book Blurb for The Locket
Can you consider a necklace a gift if it makes you angry enough to kill? A simple trinket left in a confessional begins a path of destruction throughout the years. The golden locket, left behind by a woman who killed her boyfriend, is supposedly cursed; at least that’s what she claimed before she raced out of the church. Anyone who dares fasten the pendant around her neck suffers severe and uncontrollable anger. Woe be it to anyone who gets in the path of the wearer. Is the piece cursed, or are the deaths totally unrelated? Detective Clarence O’Day is unwilling to make the connection—until forty years after the first case.
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