As I kept reading though, nothing became clearer. Everything was extremely vague and at first I thought it might just be to draw the reader’s interest. However, once I got past the introductory chapters, I had no clue what was going on. The Toll had serious potential and it started off quite strongly. Sadly, everything about The Toll fell flat for me. I’m a big fan of the creepy and the strange and this one seemed like it would be right up my alley in those categories. When, much later, a tow-truck arrives, the driver finds Titus lying in the middle of the road, but Melanie is nowhere to be found. But shortly before they reach their destination, they draw up to a halt at the edge of a rickety bridge with old stone pilings, with room for only one car. Titus and Melanie Bell leave their hotel in Fargo for a second honeymoon canoeing the Okefenokee Swamp. Take it from west to east, and you might find seven. Drive that route from east to west, and you’ll cross six bridges. State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp.
From Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.
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