Jeff

Disappointed, felt like a total bait and switch.

A different take on the zombie genre. Like 28 Days Later on speed. I was unable to put the book down and now I have a new favorite author. Just can't wait to read the rest of the series to see what happens. Highly recommend.

This book had so much potential. I'm a sucker for meta horror and that is what this one started out as. A possessed film on some rare film stock. A cult leader trying to rule the world, how could this go bad. Well, just like Adam Neville's The Ritual it goes horribly off course in the third act. It goes from meta horror to some sort of Harry Potter magic fantasy type story. It was a slog to get through the last third of this book.
It was well written, just not written for me.

No words for this book. I'm not even sure how I feel about. I enjoyed it, it was a thrill ride yet I'm torn. Recommend.

Richard Laymon never fails to deliver. Somehow I had not even heard of this book until seeing it on a group here on Goodreads. I love how he keeps the plot simple and timeline very tight.
Also reading “rump” never fails to illicit a giggle out of me.