Scott
A quick and satisfying read. Much like Mr Waggoner's other short story, Deep is the River, it's not quite clear what exactly has happened until the very end.
On their anniversary, an insecure and flawed couple try to remain warm in their home during a blizzard. While they struggle to accept that their marriage is failing, they are haunted by the memories of their love.
I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I just didn't get it. Maybe it was just because I had never read anything by the author before and didn't know what to expect.... I've heard WONDERFUL things about Ramsey Campbell and I was very excited to read this, but seldom did any of the stories succeed in pulling me in and the ones that did had some really anticlimactic endings. Almost as though the author was as bored writing the stories as I was reading them and just decided to quickly pull the plug on them and move on.
Even though I wasn't impressed with this collection, I would still be interested in checking out at least one other piece of Ramsey Campbell's work before passing judgement and writing him off. Perhaps this one just wasn't my cup of tea.
Pretty lame. I should have quit reading about 50 pages in, but kept thinking it would get better...
While it's nothing new to manipulate people with well chosen language, Max Barry takes this concept one step further. By learning primal words, words that affect people at their very core, and using them to control others, The Organization has created and army of what they call “Poets”.
This is a fascinating and exciting story that I'm happy I took the time to read.
Hilarious! No kids? You may not fully appreciate all of the humor, but there's enough there to keep you laughing at the rest of us.
I liked it. It was a quick, easy read that was pretty entertaining and suspenseful enough to make it difficult to put down.
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It was recommended to me by a friend and based on her description it sounded like just another YA dystopian story along the lines of Maze Runner, Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.... I'll admit that I enjoyed those for what they were and gave this one a shot because of that.
The first thing I noticed when I started reading this was that it's not necessarily a book intended for a YA audience. Sure, it has all the elements YA fiction, but the language was an immediate tip-off that this isn't meant for kids. Also, much to my delight, I found that the story was much darker than the recent influx of YA dystopian stories.
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
This is the second time I've read it. I wanted to get it fresh in my head before reading the sequel, Doctor Sleep. Still Love it. So much better than either of the movie attempts.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I though I would. Now I have to go back and read the first eight!
Not my favorite of the series, but definitely the most intense. Plus it opens some interesting gateways for where things may be heading for Odd.
Quick synopsis: A 13 year old girl dies and is accidentally sent to hell instead of heaven. While there she embraces her new home for eternity, builds an army of followers, and sets out to overthrow satan.
The book was okay, but not nearly as entertaining as Chuck Palahniuk's other books.
I don't think I've ever given another person's work a one star rating before and for this I feel pretty bad. I stuck it out to the very end (when I probably should have trusted my gut and archived it after a few chapters) because I wanted to give it a chance to redeem itself. It just never happened.
I dig the genre, but this book is so poorly conceived that I can't recommend it to anyone.