A man, haunted by a family curse, is taken beyond the limits of his sanity to a realm where he has no control over his actions or his fear. James Adams lived a normal life in a New York suburb before the demons dwelling within him awoke from their slumber to reveal unspeakable horror and prophesize his future — his destiny. Crescendo is a novel about fate and the lengths we will travel to avoid the inevitable. Set in tranquil Rockland County, New York, this tale of suspense and horror will take its reader on an emotional roller coaster of anger, anxiety, compassion, and indelible fear.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting, wide-eyed look into killer's psyche!,
By Cynthia Hooks (Hemet, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crescendo: Welcome Home, Death Awaits (Paperback)
The moment Ms. Wood correctly used 'blood spatter' to describe what most laymen mistakenly refer to as 'blood splatter,' I knew she had done her homework. From that point on, I was totally entangled in her web of murder, suspense and horror. James is no ordinary dreamer-when he dreams, people die horrific deaths. Even before he finds revealing documents in the old family home, he is a ticking time bomb ready to explode and we learn that he has fallen victim to a generational curse that haunts his father's bloodline. This man's vivid nightmares drive him to the brink of madness and at times, James is hard-pressed to separate his dreams from reality. His wife wants to help, but is constantly put off by her husband's denial. When James' friend Pete senses his mental fragility, he sees the perfect opportunity to exact revenge for James' affair with his wife in the months before her death. Crescendo is a masterpiece, an exciting, wide-eyed look into the psyche of a killer. As someone who has studied psychology and psychopathology as it relates to crime, I found Ms. Wood's story riveting, intriguing and very well-written. It was a thought-provoking read that, for me, renewed the age-old argument of heredity vs. environment and whether or not our destinies are predetermined. It is an awesome debut novel for Ms. Wood and I look forward to more thrillers from her in the future. This work is perfect for the big screen! C. Highsmith-Hooks, Author
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Is it real? Or is he dreaming?,
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This review is from: Crescendo: Welcome Home, Death Awaits (Paperback)
Crescendo, a novel by author L. Marie Wood, takes you on a horrifying journey through one person's madness. Is it real? Or is he dreaming? Sometimes you know. But sometimes, you don't know until the end of the sequence. Crescendo. Join James, Andrea, Pete and Susan as they are each touched by the madness that surrounds one of them. Is it destiny? Crescendo. Author Wood is very careful to draw visuals for you. She is so deliberate that you are constantly transported into the middle of the madness, seeing each scene as vividly as if you are there. Crescendo. Stay with Crescendo through its early pages. If you do, you will not be able to put it down even though it's late and you are not sure that you want to know more. Crescendo will stay with you long after you finish the last word. Sometimes you'll wonder -- was that real? Or was I dreaming?
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Darkly Compelling Read,
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This review is from: Crescendo: Welcome Home, Death Awaits (Paperback)
It is said that a wounded friend is the bitterest of foes. James is about to receive empirical proof of this maxim in lurid detail.
L. Marie's Wood's first novel entitled "Crescendo" is a compelling love bite upon the imagination whose swiftly-paced storytelling and visceral atmosphere will leave you thirsting for the story to continue. `Crescendo" is the best kind of fiction; that rooted in universal themes and subjects that often are often unnerving, sometimes ugly, but always easily related to by the reader. Its tale burns all the hotter for the perfect plausibility of it all, since readers will find themselves thinking, as I did on so many occasions throughout my read, This could happen.
Wood has fashioned a horror tale born of an expertly interwoven mélange of subtexts and underplots that challenges the very nature of trust, fidelity, and madness, and brings the reader nose-to-nose with smart characters who are never so human as when they are acting-and in many cases, reacting-inhumanly to one another. "Crescendo" leaves no relationship untested, be they friendship, marital, or familial in basis, and readers will empathize with these characters, many of whom embody the shaking anger and duplicity and impassioned resentment that every reader has known at one time or another. Here at last is a novel that doesn't let us turn away from the mirror just because the image it reflects is dirty. I truly enjoyed reading "Crescendo", and consider it an affectionate gift to the walking wounded among us; one that will leave you stinging with your wish to have the show go on and on.
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