The series has finally come to a close, and what started out as a creepy homage to Lovecraft and the unsettling horror of old came home a fully fleshed, chilling look at the patience of evil. After all the deep world building of the first trades, this final installment felt rushed, the chase scenes felt drawn out to fit into the cliche of ending a nice cerebral ride with a chase, but that is my only complaint. I felt the ending was satisfying, suspenseful and […]
This Book Is Full of Spiders
Quick Synopsis: John and Dave bumble into more bizarre problems and manage to come out on the other end despite being terminal screwups. Quick Review: Very fast-paced. Gross and also funny. Read the full review here.
This review has been banned for distribution as injurious to the cause of Darkness -The Day Watch
Target: Sergei Lukyanenko’s Day Watch. Translated by Andrew Bromfield (The Watches pentalogy #2) Profile: Modern Fantasy, Suspense, Horror Day Watch is a strong successor to the gritty, twilight world that Sergei Lukyanenko introduced us to in Night Watch. After exploring the moral dilemmas facing a ‘good’ person trying to maintain a status quo that is anything but good, Lukyanenko shifts his focus to take a look at the bad guys. That being said, Day Watch isn’t as strong overall as its prequel, partly because the Dark Others aren’t faced with […]
Not Actually a Fear Street Book
This is only a Fear Street book by the very thinnest of margins–three of the main characters are from Shadyside and one lives on Fear Street. Mentioning it briefly is as close as the entire story gets to the titular street. Since RL Stine also published Point Thrillers and other books, I’m not sure why this was a Fear Street book. Since all the Fear Street books before this one were published in 1989 and 1990, maybe it was a deadline thing. In any case, […]