But what is it that drives a writer to scuttle and his work?
Certainly Level 26 is not a masterpiece but it is a captivating thriller playing on the psychology of his characters and a villain both unusual and disturbing to the doubts and fears of the one who chases him.
In Dark Prophecy Zuiker forgot all restraint to produce a bad scenario in which the purely human aspects are set aside in favor (!) Of a story that, if it wants, rhythmic panting, only manages to reveal her artifices. The almighty Steve Dark has perhaps some doubts but not enough for one stops there and, as a kid which one would offer a bunch of wonderful toys, forgets to engage in the fight. And the survey is of the same ilk! Do not expect to penetrate the criminal mind prey or to follow the reasoning of the profiling, here is a soothsayer and intuitions, to say the illuminations that guide the search. We gleefully mocks the intelligence of the reader as well as the actual work of the investigators.
The interest in the beginning is quickly erased and the author no longer gives us the impression of having to complete the agreed number of pages to get us to the conclusion without interest to this story. The psychological aspect is completely erased to make room for a large cinema, a riot of means and actions upmanship that border on the ridiculous.
In short, a waste of time and certainty, I would not read the third installment of the adventures (in costume?) Steve Dark.
I got to wondering if Zuiker has written two volumes of this emerging standard, or has left the hand after the third to generate some income by relying solely on the reputation of the first title ...
