This was not a great book. It wasn’t even very good. But it’s Dean Koontz, and you could definitely do worse for a few hours of reading. “He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.” Detective John Calvino’s entire family was murdered (along with several others) when he was a child. He ended the serial […]
“The madness inside will haunt you forever…”
This book wasn’t *bad*, necessarily, but definitely did not live up to my expectations based on the pretty awesome title and cover. “I understood why Aunt Cordelia had dragged herself out to the road before committing suicide. Why she hadn’t let herself die on the property. Because then she would have been stuck forever. Like me.” Sixteen year old Delia has inherited her great-aunt’s property — a rundown mansion also known as Hysteria Hall, since it used to be a sanitarium for “troubled” girls. Unfortunately, the […]
I mean, he *says* he’s not
This is one of those books with a twist that will make it or break it for you. I personally felt hooked until the twist, and then thought it went pretty much downhill from there. Your mileage may vary, however. “I’ve been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,’ I said. ‘Do you know what that means?’ ‘It means you’re a freak,’ he said. ‘It means that you’re about as important to me as a cardboard box,’ I said. ‘You’re just a thing – a piece of garbage that no […]
I was *really* tempted to toss this one in the freezer
This was a creepy, weird and incredibly effective horror book. If you’re into that sort of thing, don’t read the review — just go read the book. I wouldn’t recommend finding out too much ahead of time. That being said, it has two little kids in it and I totally admit to googling whether or not they made it to the end! “In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for?” Mallorie lives in a world of blindness. […]
Being in one’s body
Dust Bath Revival is a book in which magic and history and Florida and science all get scrunched up and then smoothed out again into a shape neither the reader nor Hank can anticipate. It’s a dark and fascinating ride. Henrietta Goodness — but for the love of little green apples call her Hank — is not your average heroine. But then, Dust Bath Revival is not your average book; sure, there are zombies but these aren’t your grandfather’s zombies and they aren’t necessarily the […]
“An atmosphere, a force – I do not exactly know what to call it – of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger”
I’ve heard this book lauded as a classic horror novel, but it’s really nothing more than a sort of dull ghost story. The blurb on Goodreads calls it “a ghost story written by Jane Austen”, but it’s a pretty poor imitation of her style, in my opinion. “No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude – not so…so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more […]
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