Dan, a poet and former cult member, is shocked by the sudden arrival of Jude, his long-since-dead high-school sweetheart, and learns of her intention to claim Dan and his family's souls.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's Frankenbook!,
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This review is from: California Gothic (Hardcover)
Is the main character haunted by the ghost of a former love, will the reader even care? This "novel" is nothing more than a few short stories stapled together to make a book length read. And the print and chapter gaps are pretty large too. Etchison is a great writer and this book is not without merit, but it feels like something that was tossed off, and the ending will make you feel cheated.
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5 hours of my life that I'm not getting back,
By ardennes17 (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: California Gothic (Mass Market Paperback)
I've recently started another book by edited Etchison and the name was hauntingly familiar-- all I could remember was that he wrote a lame book that was my misfortune to read many years ago. And this was it. Move on, move on, move on.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Like most Etchison stuff . . .,
By Greg (Tulsa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: California Gothic (Hardcover)
Well, not a very successful book. But really, in order to decide that, you'd have to know what the author's intent was, right? Here it just isn't clear. Now, that's not always a bad thing, but here, as is so in most "horror" tales, it is a bad thing. Everything about the story seemed rather arbitrary. It could've begun anywhere, could've gone anywhere, could've ended up anywhere. It just didn't matter. There was some good atmospheric stuff, but more often than not it was unnecessary, thrown in just to show how well the author could put you in the setting of the story. To make this review short, keep you horizons narrow and this will be a mind-blowing novel. Read more than three or four books in your life and this thing will either bore you or fall apart before your eyes. Hey, and here's something funny: I read this thing three times. Why? I think it was something in the drinking water here. I had forgotten reading it. Maybe it's just not good enough to remember but not bad enough to outrage the reader enough to always remember it and resent the author. In other words, it's like a lot of the horror being pedalled out there. Happy dumpster-diving.
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