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Basilisk

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I have read other books by this author that I enjoyed, but I don't know what happened to this one because it's kind of a mess. The writing is clunky, the characters are cliche ridden and stiff. The science is never really explained, we're just supposed to say oh, okay... I did not care a whit for any of these characters and I thought the relationship between the dad and the son was just plain dumb. I would pass this one by and look for some of the author's earlier work. This one reads like a bad made for TV movie.

I couldn't have said it better than JP did. The plot was OK, but the dialogue was juvenile, making it hard to read. While it has been sometime since I read any Masterton, I don't recall it being poor in the past. Unless you're desperate, don't waste your time.

I read this book because I enjoyed "The Hell Candidate", which this same author wrote under the name "Thomas Luke". This one did not measure up. As the other reviewers said, it was clunky and read like a bad TV movie. And, even for horror fiction, it was not plausible.

That being said, I'm now reading another book by the same author: "House of Bones". I'm more than halfway through and it's creepy and engaging. If it continues in this manner, I will recommend that readers interested in this author's work turn to HOB and "Hell Candidate" instead of "Basilisk".