More of a 2.5 than a straight 2, but not good enough to round up to a 3. The only things I liked was the usage of the forest and the doppelgangers and working in the Marshall/Kate subplot without feeling forced. However, the entirety of Dexter's back story was boring and contrived, relied on so many stereotypical characters it was ridiculous, and Arzt seemed terribly off.

Dear LOST writers: Arzt doesn't care about your boring OCs' sob stories. Neither would Shannon, who in this part of season one when the book takes place would be far too worried about herself to care about anyone else.

Hopefully the third and last LOST tie-in novel is better. ( )