Stalker (Kindle Edition)
October 19th, 2009
Product Description
Dan Freeman loves horror movies. After seeing the movie “Stalker,” he gets very enthusiastic about it, emulating the title character and following innocent people around for fun and thrills. He wants to see how close he can get without getting caught. Ten yards? Ten feet? Close enough to smell perfume? Close enough to touch?
Dan suspects his girlfriend of cheating on him. One night, while following her using his newfound skills, Dan finds out an awful truth.
Now the stalker becomes the stalked.
Dan suspects his girlfriend of cheating on him. One night, while following her using his newfound skills, Dan finds out an awful truth.
Now the stalker becomes the stalked.
If you like suspense thrillers as opposed to mysteries I think you’ll like this one. For sure you’ll like the price if your book budget is as stretched as mine is after buying the Kindle 2. I hardly ever start reading a book and keep going almost non-stop, but this one grabbed me from the first sentence. I downloaded it last night, read all night and just finished it this afternoon. I found out about it in the Kindle forums here on Amazon. That’s a great place to discover new authors like this one.
I thoroughly enjoyed STALKER. I needed a book to pass the time during a flight and downloaded this one. I was drawn into the story from the start. The characters were interesting and the premise compelling. I’m looking forward to any future books by Dave Dykema.
I will be right up front and state that I couldn’t finish this book.
The viewpoint kept switching from one character to another from paragraph to paragraph. A few times it even switched to omniscient. This was not only annoying, but extremely distracting.
Also, one character seems to have some kind of secret that the author didn’t want us to know, I assume until the end. However, some of the story was even told from her viewpoint. Now, if you are basically in someone’s mind, wouldn’t you know their secret?
One other point was that the emotions of the characters just seemed extreme. The main character would go from smiling & joking to an almost murderous rage from one sentence to the next. And, yet, no one seemed to notice his extreme emotional instability. They even referred to his ‘boyish charm’ or something like that.
He seemed to me to be extremely emotionally unstable. Which is fine, but he wasn’t hiding it & yet, no one seemed to notice.
***Spoiler**** (not much of one since I didn’t finish it, but wanted to warn)
At one point, the main character’s girlfriend tells the guy’s best friend a story that leads the friend to think the main character had RAPED her. At the end of that conversation, he asks the woman to ‘look out’ for his buddy while he moves out of town. Yeah, if I think a woman’s been raped, I would definitely tell her to be sure to be good friends with and take care of her rapist. <sarcasm>
I’m sorry. The premise seemed good, but the writing was not.
I am giving 2 stars instead of one in hopes that perhaps the author will take this criticism and do some rewriting. I think he has talent; it’s just very ‘raw’ talent.