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Dark Matter
There are those among us whose mental capacity is so evolved that they are able to tap into abilities that are beyond this world. Often diagnosed as autistic, these medical marvels have led quiet lives, ignored by science. Until now.
One by one, these special "Indigo children" are disappearing and turning up dead. Now a boy handcuffed in a basement awaits his turn while two predators fulfill a mission for a madman.
Caring for her own autistic brother, FBI agent Carin Barnes is driven to find the missing boy and hunt down his abductors psychic twins Adam and Evie. At the command of their father, the pair are collecting children for torturous experiments he believes will lead to the evolution of the human race.
But in order to succeed, they need one powerful element something that Carin and her brother possess matter that elevates some minds to the highest levels of intelligence and drags others to the deepest pits of hell.
One by one, these special "Indigo children" are disappearing and turning up dead. Now a boy handcuffed in a basement awaits his turn while two predators fulfill a mission for a madman.
Caring for her own autistic brother, FBI agent Carin Barnes is driven to find the missing boy and hunt down his abductors psychic twins Adam and Evie. At the command of their father, the pair are collecting children for torturous experiments he believes will lead to the evolution of the human race.
But in order to succeed, they need one powerful element something that Carin and her brother possess matter that elevates some minds to the highest levels of intelligence and drags others to the deepest pits of hell.
- GenresScience Fiction
383 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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January 26, 2013
So, I have been reading mostly books with a first person narrator recently and it did take me a while to get back into the style of having an actual narrator who is not in the story but after a hundred pages or so I got over that.
What was harder to get over was all of the jumping around. The chapters are fairly short just 5-10 pages and usually with each chapter you were following someone else’s life the chapters focused on about 11 different people. I really feel like it was just too much. I wish the author had just cut it down to 5 or 6 people. I would have liked to spend more time with some of the characters to get to know them better.
I did like the overall premise and the writing is not bad, I will say that I was not impressed with the author’s writing of some of the men in the book. I think she did an okay job but when she actually had them speak I thought what they said seemed unlikely, especially Zag. The story really picks up in the last 100 or so pages but I felt it tied up too nicely at the end to feel real to me. I probably won’t read this book again but I am not sorry I read it the first time.
What was harder to get over was all of the jumping around. The chapters are fairly short just 5-10 pages and usually with each chapter you were following someone else’s life the chapters focused on about 11 different people. I really feel like it was just too much. I wish the author had just cut it down to 5 or 6 people. I would have liked to spend more time with some of the characters to get to know them better.
I did like the overall premise and the writing is not bad, I will say that I was not impressed with the author’s writing of some of the men in the book. I think she did an okay job but when she actually had them speak I thought what they said seemed unlikely, especially Zag. The story really picks up in the last 100 or so pages but I felt it tied up too nicely at the end to feel real to me. I probably won’t read this book again but I am not sorry I read it the first time.
February 21, 2014
not a bad boook, it was well written. My issue with it is that it is the 2nd book in a series. I don't think you needed to read the first one to completely understand this book but the author did keep having the characters make refernces to things that happened in the other book. Nothing on the cover nor in the front of the book made any refernce to this being a sequal of sorts- if I had know that then I would have looked for the first book beofre reading this one. The nature of the refernces made in this book make reading the other book useless because I already know everything that happened.
Overall it was well written, decently thought out, a few good twists and an easy to read book. I will be looking for this author again.
Overall it was well written, decently thought out, a few good twists and an easy to read book. I will be looking for this author again.
April 3, 2011
This was a hand-me-down I've had on my book shelf for a couple years, and I finally got around to reading it. I was a little skeptical whether it would be good or not, especially when looking it up on Goodreads and seeing that it didn't have very many ratings. I think only about 10 people have marked it as 'read'. I was pleasanlty surprised. It drew me in very fast and only took me a little more than 2 days to finish. This book was very good and I would even venture to say better than some of the extremely popular authors I've read. I will be sure to look for Cruise's other book and hope to see new ones on the market soon.
August 17, 2013
I was pleasantly surpised to find that Cruise wrote a sequel to The Collector. I can't rave about this book enough. I never thought I would have the chance to read about these marvelous characters again. I can't help but swoon over Seven and be jealous of Gia. I was looking for a book that had a gory mystery and murder. I found this yet it was also softened by the characters that you can't help but want to know. I really liked this book as a sequel and the only bad comment I could produce is that there isn't a third book that continues the lives of these fasnitating characters.
July 18, 2008
This is romantic suspense with a paranormal twist. My favorite character is the daughter "stella". Stella is the glue that holds the plot together.
I suspect there may be more books with the character "zag". Again, way too many characters that are not really developed well through the book but still a good read.
I suspect there may be more books with the character "zag". Again, way too many characters that are not really developed well through the book but still a good read.
May 22, 2012
Well, it was about psychics and their abilities to manipulate dark matter and some other hokum. Not really my cup of tea, slightly better than vampires but not much. If I didn't have a hangup about not finishing books, I doubt if I would have bothered to finish reading.
February 25, 2016
Not great. Not really sci-fi, by any stretch. No insights or ideas, characters had a bit of body on them but not much - hero cop, waif like psychic, tough female cop, you know the drill...i have to stop judging books by the cover
December 11, 2011
Had to plow through too many words to get to plot. Dialog often confusing. Once at plot, the book held me. It was a good tale.
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Own in paperback.
FS: "The first thing Jack heard was the drip-drip if water."
LS: "I can hear him just fine."
NC
Own in paperback.
FS: "The first thing Jack heard was the drip-drip if water."
LS: "I can hear him just fine."
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