" My first reading of this author. He sets up an interesting premise with a set of gruesome murders somehow connected to a mysterious film that's so shocking a viewer goes blind while watching it. There's a lot to like about this novel but with a story this heavy with plot the author leaves himself with no choice but to have two characters (one of whom is the villain) give long, precisely detailed recitations of events from decades before so as to move the story along. I always see passages such as these as something of a cheat when reading suspense novels-the best don't require them as the plot unfolds so smoothly that you are informed without a clumsy 2-3 pages of explication and revelation. Overall, a pleasant diversion but not particularly outstanding. "
— David, 1/21/2014