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Mini-Review: Onyx Webb Book 1 (Episodes 1-3)

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Onyx Webb

  • Authors: Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz
  • ISBN: 9780990751816
  • Genre: Paranormal Suspense

I received this book from the authors in exchange for an honest review.

I decided to make this a mini-review due to already having written a review for the first episode, “The Story Begins”.  Also, even though this new edition includes the first three episodes, I don’t have much more to say than what I said in that review.  There’s more story, but it still didn’t get anywhere, and it took me less than a day to read it.  I’m left with lots of questions, and looking at the release schedule in the copy I received, I’m not sure if I want to invest that much time or money in getting those questions answered.  Perhaps if the episodes were condensed down into fewer books, I would be more interested.

I guess I was expecting the story to be like a tv show; perhaps slow at first, but intriguing, and each successive episode drawing me further into the story.  However, the setup for what happened to Onyx and how all the other characters tie into her story is taking too long.  All the way through to the end of episode 3, new characters are introduced with no way of telling if they’re important or not.  Most of my reading notes consist of a long list of names, just in case I would meet them again and need to remind myself who they are.  Despite giving the first episode four stars on Goodreads, I don’t feel there’s enough story in the remainder of this book to give it any more than three.

Review: Onyx Webb – Episode 1

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Onyx

  • Authors: Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz
  • ASIN: B00O6DZLG0
  • Publisher: Lust For Living Press
  • Genre: Paranormal Suspense

I received this book from the authors in exchange for an honest review.

Once again, I’ve read a genre I don’t normally read.  This time, though, it was because my mind somehow equated Paranormal Suspense with Fantasy and I agreed to review the book after reading the synopsis.  I’m mostly happy about the mistake, after I got over my initial genre confusion when I started reading the book.

I say “mostly happy” because though this is a quick, suspenseful read, the subtitle “The Story Begins” means exactly that.  There is a lot of character introduction spanning several different generations, and it’s known that the main character, Onyx Webb, is dead, and a ghost of some sort, but not the how or why.  Just when I thought I was going to find out what happened to Onyx, there was a plot twist and then the story shifted to one of the other characters.  I’m fine with that, but I wanted a little more story before all the cliffhanging.

If “Episode One” wasn’t a part of the title, or if the book wasn’t as short as a novella or the start of a serial, I’d be angry about the cliffhanger ending.  So, even though I would have liked a bit more of the story, I’m not disgruntled about it, especially since a preview of Episode Two was included in my copy.  I look forward to reading the next parts, and I recommend Episode One to anyone who loves Paranormal or Suspense Thrillers or both, especially if you enjoy serials.