The Ravening
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From the subversive mind behind The Hollows comes a new, page turning horror thriller, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones. Jenna's life has always been a fight. From the traumatic and mysterious loss of her mother on a dark woodland road when she was fifteen, to the abusive and controlling boyfriend she's recently escaped, she has learned that trust hurts you in the end. Now Jenna's found what she hopes is happiness with her new girlfriend, Holly. But the world is full of darkness - some of it ancient, some of it closer to home... Evil, and those who serve it, will not let Jenna go. The Ravening is a gripping, claustrophobic horror novel that sets a timeless nightmare against one woman and her belief in herself, and the possibility that somewhere, somehow, there is love in the world.
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This book gave me the full blown CREEPS!!!!
Jenna's mother disappeared when Jenna was a teen and she knows what she heard.... That night never left Jenna.
Present day, Jenna is a mess. She is pregnant with a baby she doesn't want but as she goes to the clinic she is kidnapped!
Things are not what it seems and there is something lurking that is not human..
The creature is CHILLING!! Its basically a horror/thriller twisty ride that you can feel breathing down your neck!
It could have been a bit shorter. That's my only issue but I love the writing style and I was fully absorbed into this book!
4.5 stars
I didn't love this one quite as much as I did Daniel Church's previous book (or indeed some of the books published under the author's real name). The ensemble horror of The Hollows is replaced by a much tighter focus on just one character, and Church does a good job of getting into her head and explicating her past trauma, her fearfulness and resilience, and the walls she needs to break down. She's a compelling character, and her supernatural antagonist is a memorable creation, one that you can almost smell off the page. It's the human bad guys that let me down a little bit, as I just didn't believe that their schemes, especially the first one, could ever work - when it was outlined, my reaction was, oh come on, and what about..... The suspension of disbelief was wobbling. Yes, I was completely on board with an ancient evil that's twenty feet high and made of bones, but a villainous toff was just pushing it too far for me. Go figure.