The Book Reviewer’s Choice: Day #8

Anthony Wessel, from our staff at Digital Book Today, is also a reviewer for our neighbors The Kindle Book Review. His group will be highlighting one reviewer’s favorite book from 2011 in the coming weeks. They were asked to vote for their favorite kindle book. They review a lot of books, but only promote those that meet the quality standards of 4 stars or higher.

Welcome to the final day of The Kindle Book Reviewer’s choice series. If you haven’t been paying attention, we have posted eight of our reviewers favorite books of 2011. These books have ranged from fantasy to romance to thriller to hauntings. Today we are featuring one of our in house reviewers and writers, Rebecca Scarberry.

Today’s featured book only has one review, but I checked out his other books, and there are many, award winning in fact, and all he gets is 5 stars… on all his titles. Because this is the reviewer’s choice, the author gets a free pass on the 20 review rule.

Rebecca’s choice for the best book she reviewed in 2011 was Vanishing Act by John Scherber.

This review is written by Rebecca Scarberry

I highly recommend this novel to those of you who like novels with plenty of adventure and a storyline you will not soon forget.

The first death in this story is the death of Peter Welsh after he rents an apartment to Sarah Townsend. Sarah is nowhere to be found for questioning. This is where author, John Scherber, takes you on a wild ride with the Wahkonen, also called shape shifters, a mystical mist, where fetuses are found in corn husks among other unexplained deaths.

The Wahkonen certainly had no hesitation to kill, even for the most frivolous of reasons. The mist can be seen when a Wahkonen is moving and thus changing shape. The mimicry is both physical and psychological. Normal human motivations do not apply to them.

It takes a village to track down the Wahkonen. It must be killed and the only way to do this is by driving a sharp buckthorn stake into its heart and then spraying it with water.

What I like the most about the story was the masterful way John Scherber takes you through a treacherous mountain excursion. As the people, in search of a Wahkonen, drive through the mountains, you feel as though you can see every frightening detail. There are sheer drop-offs, sharp curves, and when they reach the top they are in the clouds.

John has you constantly wondering whose body the Wahkonen has taken over. Just when I thought I had that figured out, things changed.

I will definitely read more books by John Scherber.

Get you copy of Vanishing Act today.

Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @Scarberryfields

Rebecca Scarberry has written two short stories, for young adults: Rag Doll and Messages From Henry. She enjoys reading mystery and thrillers. Rebecca accepts kindle format. Contact: r3scarberry @ yahoo.com (no spaces). Rebecca is NOT accepting books at this time.