The initial development of delightful creeping dread reveals itself to be less than the potential of the story promised. But it could have been an outstanding piece of writing and a better horror story. well, let's just say they're a lot less interesting and more predictable than they could have been. The "ones across the river" are disappointingly revealed to be. Suddenly, many of the characters develop convenient but unconvincing paralysis. Then, about two thirds of the way through the book, I get the sense that that someone told the author to quit pissing around and being literary and write a novel just like other horror novels. We are all set up for a wonderful walk through the strange, strange south. The setting is eerie, the premise is intriguing. Even his minor characters are fresh and vivid. His characters are complex and human and deeply engaging.
His descriptive writing is rich and takes you there.
I THINK I heard the entire book, but I hope that Penguin Audio is more careful with its finished products in the future.īuehlman's prose is a pleasure to listen to. But almost every chapter ends with one of these squeaky cuts, where a single word is cut off, and when the book resumes and you're in another chapter, it's very disconcerting. skip turned out to be only a single word, and I resumed listening. I wound up purchasing the book on Kindle so I could make comparisons! The 39 min. I contacted Audible and they said they found no problem, and sent me a fresh file, but the problem was the same. 39 minutes into the recording it seemed to skip, and while the book is labeled as 9hr6min in length, the download read out at 8hr25min. The narrator was very good, although he seemed to forget that his 3 protagonists were YANKEES in the south, and generally gave them heavy southern inflections as well, No big deal. The story is literary, first rate and laid out just right. Let's start with the plusses - this is a rip-snorting, fast-paced, carefully-crafted thriller in both horror and historical fiction categories. Recording glitches, but a great gruesome tale
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