“Do you have any new intel for me? … Then why would I have any orders for you?”
Rebecca Colt
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in return for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
Pulling Strings is a unique experience that has a lot going for it. The protagonist is an older female, and the idea of a puppeteer psychic is a fascinating premise. Unfortunately, this book is closer to horror than I enjoy, and grammar errors and awkward adjectives kept pulling me out of the story.
Rebecca Colt is a psychic agent nearing sixty as the main story begins. It is nice that she has the experience, but making her a decade younger would have made the action sequences more believable, especially after she begins claiming exhaustion well before the end of the book.
The action is a combination of horror and thriller, as you never know where the next attack will come from. Not many can resist a puppeteer, so you don’t know when a friend might turn on you.
The puppeteer idea is unique and ratchets up the aggression factor for a villain, unaware of how much they were capable of. The puppeteer’s ability to learn from other minds felt too easy. Knowledge of how to do something doesn’t make you an expert. This ability could have been a nice counterpoint to the puppeteer’s immense power.
My gripes would have put my rating at four stars, but the grammar issues dropped it to three stars. Nonsensical sentences start to show up towards the end of the book (“It’s not even that he you’re not all powerful.”), but weird adjective combinations appear throughout the book. These issues were odd enough to disrupt my reading and make me double-check what was written.
This is one of three books that Nick DeWolf has written, and he has a unique voice in the horror genre. If you are a fan of horror, this book is worth checking out, especially if you have Kindle Unlimited.
