I missed not being reminded of it's demonic presence and the evil emanating from it in a more direct manner. The few instances of ghostly music being heard, or old painful memories rising to the surface were quite good but it was left to us to link these fleeting moments to the radio, and since we knew quite clearly from the start that it was all due to the radio, I think the only way to have really made it work would have been to include a few dramatic descriptions of the radio and here and there. I really thought the radio needed to play a greater part too. It's not a bad story really, but it does take a good while to get into it's stride and then when it finally does, it kind of feels a little like a race to the end. There are a number of other pieces of really, really bad luck-, in fact being honest, everything basically goes to hell the minute the radio arrives. Her new man, Joe who has just moved to the town and buys the local newspaper ends up arming himself to the teeth and hunting through the house attempting to 'off' Dallas and her daughter Chloe(her son having left to live with his Father when things really started to kick off).
Among other things the children's aunt dies, then Dallas's friend follows quite soon after only to be followed in relatively quick succession by the cleaner, and that isn't all either.
Dallas and her two children, a son and her high school age daughter are put through the ringer with their luck going from bad to worse after she brings the old radio home.
Unfortunately the author missed a trick with the lack of suspense, probably due to the lack of use of the radio itself, to the extent that there were times where I actually forgot that the radio was the demonic force behind all the horror. The story itself could have been handled better, and given that the main idea of a possessed object, in this case a beautiful old radio, isn't the most original then it really needed something a little bit special to pull it off. First off let me just say that it's not often these days that I see a fully embossed cover on a novel, and I'm not just referring to the Title and/or Author here either but the entire image and everything.
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