I spend time looking up all of the gods and goddess that were referenced trying to figure out who Sarah or Seth were was almost as fun as the story. One of the things that I liked best about the book, besides the things that I had already mentioned was the authors ability to describe the pain that this chacters were suffering without showing it to you. To put it another way, you saw the pie being tossed, you saw the embarrassment of having to walk out of the office covered in pie, but you didn’t see the pie hitting the jilted lover in the face in the middle of the break room with everyone watching. Enough details to let you know it happened, without actually showing it happen. I want to thank the author for that. Understand that people are in pain, had had pain inflicted upon them is in my oppion more powerful that seeing that pain, and it leaves the actual action to your imagination. And we all know that it is only in your imagination where a tiny spider can be transformed into a demon devouring people from the inside out as they sing it praises.

If I were allowed to only complain about one thing, I think I would complain about the audio levels. At points I had my stereo cranked all the way up just to hear what they were saying and then the outro would come and blow my ears out.

Since I am allowed to talk about more than one thing that I didn’t like I would also reiterate the your comment about the short chapters. In text format this would not be a problem in fact it might be a good thing. But in audio, when the chapter is over and the progress par is less than half way across the screen it found it frustrating and was very glad that I keep my ipod in a place in my car that I can easily swipe to the next chapter. I know if I were listening and waiting a week and then got one of those short ones only to have to wait another week I would just about scream. Not that screaming would do me any good. (PS this is why I am a Podiobook hoarder, thank you PG Holyfield for teaching me that lesson.)

With all of this said, I want to reference you back to the top of my Comment where I said, “I liked this story. I have recommended it to others and I will continue to do so.” all on my complaints were about the audio itself and not the story in anyway. In fact It inspired me to write a story about well people on “the river.”