The five "strays" who stay in the mansion-turned-dormitory over the long weekend, including lonely and isolat protagonist Robin, each with wildly differing personalities, must "form bonds and alliances under the pressure of surviving," in spite of their "behavior, stem[ming] from their inadequacies, real or perceived.
Originally discussed in an issue of 2006, and posted in 2010 online, Kirkus summed it up as "a little scary, a lot silly, boast[ing] the big-screen virtues of quick pace and an engaging plot;" however, "in the end, it reads more like young-adult fare than a book for grownups.
[6] Another review by Publishers Weekly called the book "a teen terror flick in prose" and found the characters boring and annoying, saying that one of them, the nerd archetype, projects a "skepticism [that] grows increasingly grating with each repeat expression," and that as for the rest, they "develop little personality outside of their carefully crafted types."
[citation needed] Her most recent novel efforts involve the fictional FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke as he attempts to track down a female serial killer named Cara Lindstrom.
The first novel in the series, Huntress Moon (2014), to some, "introduced something new to the field that left an impact close to the one chewed out by Hannibal Lecter," because "the concept of a female serial killer was a unique one" in the genre at the time of publication.
[10] In a discussion about The Harrowing, SFFWorld said the author "writes camera-ready prose – concise, direct, visual – so that [their work] proceeds somewhat like a movie, in well-realized scenes giving a sense of a camera following [characters]," like a screenwriter would in a script.