Dark Tide (Daw science fiction) [Paperback]

Elizabeth Forrest (Author)

Book Description

Series: Daw science fiction | Publication Date: September 1, 1993

Thirty-five years after the drowning death of three boys at the pier amusement park in Pacific Crest, California, Parker Solomon, a witness to the accident and now a grown man, returns to the scene of the tragedy. Original.

Editorial Reviews

Review

One of those big, scary, colorful adventure stories...the real stuff, a rare pleasure.
--- --Dean R. Koontz

Exciting and fast paced, this book races from incident to incident and always keeps readers in suspense. In the guise of a horror/suspense novel it tackles several other issues as well: gangs, rape, psychoanalysis and surviving trauma to name a few. You want Parker to come out on top and defeat the evil that is pursuing him... Younger readers who read Pike and Stine may be intimidated by this thicker novel, but fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will certainly go for this one.
--- --Voya

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--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: DAW; Reprint edition (September 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886775604
• ISBN-13: 978-0886775605
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,153,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fan For Life!, November 12, 2003

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Fred Rayworth (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Tide (Daw science fiction) (Paperback)

I read this book about ten years ago and it made me a fan of MS Forrest. This is an excellent icky bug story and I especially liked the monster. The setting was the California coast and it reminded me of home (I once lived in Lompoc). This book was an easy read and I could not put it down. I spent a lot of effort scouring the bookstores for the rest of her novels and now have the complete collection. Well worth finding!

3.0 out of 5 stars Good characters & story, October 7, 2003

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Michael Smith (Marshall, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Tide (Daw science fiction) (Paperback)

I really liked the characters in this story - they seemed very realistic and I found myself interested in what they were going to do. The basic plot was good as well, but the end was something of a let-down. There really wasn't a payoff in terms of finding out what the "evil" really was - some sort of nuclear mutant fish or what. I really would have liked a sequel - I didn't like the author's "Retribution" as much as this one.