| As a twenty-year veteran of the
CIA, Matt Carrigan has been exposed to a lot.
Having been imprisoned in Iraq and being forced to wait
for two years before someone comes in to rescue him, Matt
decides it is time to resign and see if his long time love,
Lisa, will take him back. However,
his plans to retire are pushed aside when a mysterious dilemma
plagues the world. Elderly
men and women, homebodies, and genuinely innocent people are
suddenly committing unprovoked acts of murder.
Matt sneakily brings Lisa into his next assignment by
hiring her as his personal assistant.
Soon Matt realizes that a terrifying
“virus” is being spread through the internet.
Matt and his team must uncover who is behind this deadly
subliminal message and put an end to it before mankind is
eliminated.
WEB CRAZE is an intriguing suspense based
on the theme of subliminal messaging through the internet which
I can see happening, though not to that extent.
I do feel men will enjoy this book, however from a
women’s viewpoint, the overabundance of sex was really not
necessary to the storyline.
I had a hard time buying into the
relationship between Matt and Lisa to start.
Their first study date leads to some rather steamy
touching, yet Lisa does have the intelligence to say no because
she barely knows him. That
was a smart move given the number of STD’s out there, though
in the late 1970’s when this would have happened, it was not
as common. However,
not even a page later, Lisa is about to leave and then turns
around and asks if she can spend the night, at which point they
have unprotected sex. This
abrupt character turn-around threw this reader, and I found it
harder to relate to her character.
Furthermore, after two years of not hearing a word from
Matt, she willingly takes him back with open arms.
I found that a little hard to believe.
I feel the story has great potential and
was a riveting thriller, though the inclusion of the graphic sex
and whole Lisa story was not deeply necessary to the
storyline. WEB
CRAZE would have been wonderful without that secondary plot. |
