The Dark 2

by Linda Cargill

Bianca Winters hoped that her nightmare was over. But it's not. The brutal murderer who was stalking her is dead, but still someone seems to be out there waiting for her. Bianca and Little Katie, the millionaire toddler that she babysits for, are still in danger from the watcher in the dark...

Genres: Horror

237 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 2004

About the author

Linda Cargill likes to pack up her minivan and tour the country every summer. She explores locales with ghostly or supernatural connections. She listens to local legends and lore. She investigates mysteries. Then she shares her findings with her readers in each new young adult suspense novel. Once in awhile she even pens an historical! All her books are pictured on her website http://www.edwardwarethrillers.org. She lives with her husband, Gary, her son, Kenny, her Abyssinian cat, Putlitz, and her Labrador Retriever, Rommel .Lately she's been putting her pen to the Edward Ware Thriller Series. The first three volumes are now out: Key to Lawrence Special Edition, 1935 Plot, and Captive at the Berghof part 1.

Reviews

[Jonathan Currinn (Good Star Vibes) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ideas and concepts change over the years, I had this on my wishlist because I loved the first book in the duology. However, I've recently re-read that first book and I wasn't at all impressed due to the awful writing style (16-year-old me thought it was great, but the 26-year-old me didn't find it gripping at all)

And so, going into this sequel wasn't anything I was looking forward to at all (I had re-read the first book just to refresh my memory for this one), and the writing style was just as bad, but what made this worse was the highly unreal scenes that I could still imagine happening and yet felt beyond farfetched and just unnatural.

On top of that, I started to dislike the main character, Bianca Winters, even more than I did in the first one because she couldn't see the obvious. I still enjoyed the storyline, overall, but in comparison to the first book, this didn't quite have the good storyline throughout.

This disappointed me even more purely because of how 16-year-old me loved the first book, turns out 10 years on can make a difference and finding out the sequel was worse than the first book was even more disheartening.

[S · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought this was a terrible book. The worst of the Point Horror series. The writing style was choppy. The story line far fetched. The main character was portrayed as a pathetic, weak female with no control and supposedly she was a heroine. The male characters were misogynistic. And was the child christened Little Katie? Why capitalise it? If I read Little Katie one more time I would've thrown the book in a fire. You would never trust that girl to babysit. I actually couldn't help but laugh at it. Maybe the author was laughing when she was asked to write a sequel.

[Mella · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the first book and was pleasantly surprised to find there was a sequel. Unfortunately this one wasn't as good as the first - Bianca was a lot more stupid in this. 2 stars.

[Carra · Rating 1 out of 5]

Worst. Book. Ever. I haven't read anything since this book because it almost killed my love of reading. Terrible writing, worse storyline. Even for a YA book this is drivel.