Death's Captive

Death's Captive proves that Scarlett Reed is capable of coming up with interesting storylines. Unfortunately, the novel was ultimately lacking in editing primarily. Issues with continuity, grammar, development, dialogue, and other writing hiccups really drew from the experience. I found myself tripping over missed words, unnatural dialogue, and other errors that ultimately just seemed like a race to the finish.
While Reed presented a lot of interesting ideas that could've made for a great story with proper development, the lack thereof felt much more like they were simply thrown in at random times and without any build-up or continuation. In fact, the entire ending was probably the best example of this. Once again, it was clear that Reed has the ability to come up with unique stories but needs to practice properly writing them out. The ending felt sudden and unexplained; the conflict didn't even seem to lead into it. Another huge problem that arose from lack of development or led to it was just that there was too much going on. Too many characters were given focus, with few if any getting any sort of ending or closure. The main character had way too many conflicts, almost none of which felt resolved at the end.
I have faith that Scarlett Reed could become a great writer some day given her imagination. However, her writing needs quite a bit of polish before readers will actually be able to enjoy her stories.