Replace an atom of magnesium in a molecule of chlorophyll with an atom of iron and you get red bloodthis scientific fact inspired A Deadly Shade of Green. Peter and Miranda move into an old Californian Mission. Towering over the Mission is a vast Tree of unknown species that exerts a hypnotic effect on the couple. A Bizarre series of murders occurs with Miranda the prime suspect. Both Peter and his friend Miya are almost killed and Miranda becomes pregnant, her fetus poisoned. Finally, Peter employs fire, flood and native cunning to combat this primordial enemy. National Writers Association Novel of the Year.
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Despite the foreboding history of a fabled, long-abandoned mission near the California coast, pragmatic Peter Riley and his dreamy-eyed wife, Miranda, move in, and find that the once luxurious grounds are dominated by a gigantic tree of unknown origin that bears seductive flowers and exotic fruit. Newly pregnant Miranda, poisoned by the fruit, starts to roam the bleak neighborhood at night and is suspected of several murders. There is a Poe-like motif of skeletons buried alive, a surfeit of drowsy gazing at the rain, a cartoonish Indian shaman, ritual dancing, an uprising of zombies and much more supernatural activity before the dull-witted Rileys realize that the tree is the evil force behind all the spookiness. Though Willis-Pitts, in his debut novel, has apparently carefully researched tree physiology and Indian legends, he mixes the fruits of his research into a litany of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo broken up by melodramatic exposition. The sheer excess of the narrative lends the novel a spark of vitality, but the corny, amorphous plot does very little to move the otherwise sluggish tale along. (Mar.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Unexpected plot twists, nail-biting suspense and great characterization conveyed in razor-sharp prose that plunged me into an eerily vivid world so credible I couldn't put the book down till the last page..." --- Sandy Whelchel, Executive Director, National Writers Association. -- National Writers Association
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Compelling, suspensful, well crafted novel of good vs. evil.,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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Peter and Miranda are a nouveau-riche couple who move into an ancient Mission in California only to find, too late, that the Mission has a history of dark secrets and death. Towering over the Mission is a vast Tree, an ancient and alien species that begins to exert an hypnotic effect over the couple. Miranda's dreams and waking life are filled with fragments of Indian myths, the lulling sound of Gregorian chants, and the horrific wails of dying Franciscan monks. Underlying it all is the heavy musk of the 50,000 year old Tree that creeps into the very core of their dream house, disrupting the fiber of their idyllic life. When Miranda becomes pregnant, her foetus is poisoned by the toxic tree fruit and Peter almost dies in an "accident" in the Mission pool. Finally convinced, Peter pits his wits against this primordial adversary. A Deadly Shade Of Green is a compelling, suspenseful, well crafted novel of good versus evil, but in a context and in a frame that inhibits a clear-cut dichotomy or easy answers. It may be Man who is the trespasser here!
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A Deadly Shade of Green,
By storedia (London) - See all my reviews
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Excellent, had me riveted and horrified! Extremely well written and researched, almost as though describing true events. I doubt if I will ever look at a tree the same again without being reminded of this book. Well deserving its prize of 'novel of the year'.
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A Deadly Shade of Green is truly a great book!,
By G Gates (Aurora, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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A Deadly Shade of Green is a horror story in the very best sense of the word! The descriptions are great, and the story continually had me wondering, "How much of this is really true?" And as much as I would like to see the tree, I certainly never want to meet it!The book is really good and very much worth buying, reading, and saving to read again.
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