I needed this. I have spent so much time in my own world writing my books. I haven't read a book that wasn't my own in just a few days in forever.

Very good horror story. Like most good stories the bad guys were worth the price of admission. Great ending that I won't talk about for fear of getting into a lot of trouble.

If you like horror, run out and buy it. ( )

Cue dramatic sigh. First things first, I find it so odd that I do not like this book. Breeding Ground scared me out of my wits, and I am loving Mayhem. But this one is a bump in the road. Two reasons:

1) The story takes a good long while to get started. It's interesting and mysterious, I suppose, but you know who all the players are going to be long before any real action starts. And some of even the main characters are wobbling right on that cliché line.

2) Here's where I get grumpy. Though I don't believe the book states, I believe that we are meant to infer that the priest ("priest")/church in this book are Roman Catholic. While individual religion doesn't have much bearing on the story as a whole, it took me right out of the story when the priest said his first Mass. There was so much wrong, it wasn't even mass. I'm not sure what it was. There was hardly even a structure to it. There seemed to be a sermon (homily?), Eucharist, and The Lord's Prayer (which Catholics tend to refer to as the Our Father). Then mass was over. Huh? I can understand changing some things so it's a little non-specific, but making something that I've done for 32 years unrecognizable to me was just too much, I suppose.

Okay grump over; now I'm going back to Mayhem. ( )

Great book but why do they always have to pick on the Catholics. ( )

Tower Hill was something that I really wasn't expecting to be so pleased with when I finished it. It had a very slow start after an action-packed chapter devoted to a decoy protagonist, but in a few chapters after that, it really picks up its intensity.

There is definitely some wonderful usage of Judeo-Christian history here to make this story work well, and Pinborough seems to have done her research excellently, even though some might find her placement of a certain biblical location rather odd. However, that is a very minor problem, and barely noticeable at all.

Definitely deserves at the very least four stars out of five. ( )