disappointing

I hate to give this a 3, but... I didn't love it. And I love The X-Files. Part of it was, I the narrator had, well, an annoying voice. A very annoying voice. That didn't help.
There was something weird about the writing, too. Which is weird, because I like Jonathan Maberry. But the tone was off. I know this was a YA, more or less, but it the adolescent voice didn't feel authentic. And Scully didn't quite feel like Scully. Almost, but there was something off, and not just because she's 15, here. (Melissa, too, actually.)
There were parts that I liked- the mystery was pretty solid, and I liked some of the secondary characters (Grandma, Angelo). It was suitably sinister.
But for this to be Scully's origin story? It just wasn't great. She gets disillusioned by a "psychic" shop owner who she discovers to be a fraud. She had looked up to and admired her and wanted to believe in her abilities, and was crushed when she discovered that she was a selfish con artist. How anticlimactic! The murders, the weird cult-y elements, the devious and deluded villain, they were interesting, but the fact that the crucialitsr turning point in Dana’s life, what made her a skeptic, was realizing that the "psychic" was actually just a clever eavesdropper? Unsatisfying.

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