03-28-2011, 08:53 AM
A trilogy by Jonathan Maberry. Maberry won the Bram Stoker award for best first novel. I read these after reading Patient Zero and The Dragon Factory. They are unconnected to that series.
Here is an interesting idea, What if Vampires an Werewolves were real? Okay, maybe not that interesting. But when the first novel was written back in 2004, it might have been a more novel idea. Maybe
Basically bad things are happening in Pine Deep, PA. Crow, Val, Saul and Mike have to protect the town from the reemergence of a demon killed thirty years ago. Fortunately, Crowe is a master of Jujitsu and Kendo and one bad ass. Val is a sturdy woman. Saul is a doctor and Mike might supernatural powers.
For horror to work, the reader shouldn't know the whole story. In the case of these books, you know pretty early who are all the parties involved. You know who are the bad guys. You know their motivations. They keep losing. So over the course of the trilogy, you can't work up a lot of fear that our heroes won't triumph. I just kept reading to see how it would all turn out. And it turned out much like the author kept telling you it would turn out.
I think the scariest part of the whole book was the very first chapter of Ghost Road Blues on the haunted hayride. After that it was a lot of talking about what they were going to do to save themselves from the monsters and then going out and doing just that.
Here is an interesting idea, What if Vampires an Werewolves were real? Okay, maybe not that interesting. But when the first novel was written back in 2004, it might have been a more novel idea. Maybe
Basically bad things are happening in Pine Deep, PA. Crow, Val, Saul and Mike have to protect the town from the reemergence of a demon killed thirty years ago. Fortunately, Crowe is a master of Jujitsu and Kendo and one bad ass. Val is a sturdy woman. Saul is a doctor and Mike might supernatural powers.
For horror to work, the reader shouldn't know the whole story. In the case of these books, you know pretty early who are all the parties involved. You know who are the bad guys. You know their motivations. They keep losing. So over the course of the trilogy, you can't work up a lot of fear that our heroes won't triumph. I just kept reading to see how it would all turn out. And it turned out much like the author kept telling you it would turn out.
I think the scariest part of the whole book was the very first chapter of Ghost Road Blues on the haunted hayride. After that it was a lot of talking about what they were going to do to save themselves from the monsters and then going out and doing just that.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit