I actually like the main character. Rose Gardner is a small town girl who experiences visions, her Momma is killed in their house, and she doesn't know what to make of her neighbor Joe McAllister.

The thing about Rose is she is not annoying, dumb, or Mary Sue-ish at all. She was raised in a strict household where her Momma abused her and her sister Violet. She was thought to be "demon-possessed" by her own mother. She wasn't allowed to drink beer (the Devil's Brew) or have a laptop (the Gateway to Hell), and was pretty much sheltered and virginal in her twenty-four years of living.

I found myself skimming through the first few chapters of the book, but I eventually slowed down to really read it around 30%. I finished this book in three hours while naked from a shower and curled under my blanket in bed. (I'm sorry for that visual).

I like this book. But I don't know if I'm prepared to dish out $4 for the other four books in the Rose Gardner Mysteries. I now understand why this and Terry Schott's The Game are offered for free on Amazon Kindle. You start one book and you're bound to want to buy the rest in the series.