Cameron sat on the porch’s edge, his feet maybe dangling right in front of Freddie, the resident king snake, for all he knew. She didn’t change the tempo of her foot, which leaned back and forth from heel to toe and back again, rocking her chair in time to the clicking of her needles. It don’t matter anyway, said her cousin Claire. They all look the same until they get some hair. I don’t know the difference, when they’re little like that. No one says how many bugs, how many beetles … how many naked pink things that might be voles, or might be mice. She used the small shovel to toss one half toward the bird feeder, and the other toward the water fountain full of murky green water and the fish that somehow survived there, in the overgrown backyard of a house called Hazelhurst. Daisy Spratford jammed her spade into the earth, slicing a worm in two.
What nobody ever tells you about gardening is … how many things you have to kill if you want to do it right. The audio version is very well done.I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher. This is an interesting tale of gothic suspense which would rate much higher if not for the character of Titus and the amount of time spent with him.The Toll will appeal to fans of gothic suspense and light horror. He does a particularly good job with the elderly sisters who are my favorite characters in the book.
His tone fits the southern setting and the accents feel of the time and place.
Ryder Smith does a good job with the narration. He appears to be intentionally written that way however it doesn't make spending time with him any easier.T. Titus is a thoroughly unenjoyable and unsympathetic character. The problem with the book is the amount of time spent with Titus. They and the sisters are the best parts of the book. An attractive waitress and her bartender boyfriend are among the other interesting characters. The ladies are an especially eccentric pair of sisters who are rumored to be witches and are wise in the ways of the swamp.The tension in the story comes more from the moody atmosphere than any actual action. Among these are a pair of old ladies and the young boy they care for. The one-horse town is home to a bar, a motel and little else save for the strange inhabitants who call it home. Titus decides to stay in a nearby town while they continue to search for his wife. The sheriff and a tow truck show up but Davina still can't be found. This is where everything starts to go all wrong in the gothic tale The Toll by Cherie Priest.Titus wakes to find himself lying in the middle of the road next to his still idling car.
They come across a rickety one-lane bridge which they take as a shortcut to their destination. Newlyweds Titus and Davina Bell are traveling along the State Highway headed for a camping honeymoon in the Okefenokee swamp.
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