Meh. Wasn't bad, I guess, but there wasn't really a sense of urgency, not really. I mean, yeah it was dark-ish, but it seemed to be all overtones. I think I was honestly more shocked/traumatized by A Dangerous Man. I suppose what I'm trying to say that while this was rather harder on the physical horror, there was a lot more that could have been done with the psychological horror?Either way, I also didn't get the "twitchy for the next book" feeling and was actually left rather bored by it.I get that it was supposed to be horrific, but I don't know if I fully got a sense of horror. *shrugs.I actually felt a little disappointed because I'd been so excited for this to come out. Welp, I guess we'll see if it gets better in the next book...11/5/12 ETAHmm...on a second read, it wasn't as bad as I'd remembered. Well, meh. Idk. I guess I'll just wait and reserve judgment until the second book.