Young Kevin Holmes had been having trouble getting his parents to believe his stories after the electrical accident. His parents wouldn't believe a thirteen year-old boy when he told them wild tales, although they sensed something eerie at Blackwinter's.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Starts OK, ends terribly.,
This review is from: Demon's Eye (Kindle Edition)
First, let me say that I devour this type of horror novel. To compare me to a refined and cultured reader would be like calling a 300 pound man who eats at McDonald's everyday a health nut. These books are junk food for the brain and I love them.
This one started out as well as any other, but the last 20% of the book fell into an annoying trend: Extreme overuse of the exclamation "God" at the beginning of sentences. Like.. "God, he's using the word God at the beginning of this sentence again". I counted literally three or four per page in some instances. I got the feeling that at the end of the book, the author lost interest and just decided to slack through the rest, cash his check, and forget about it. If the book had started like this, I would have never finished it. It would have joined the rare 1% of books that pass through my hands that are actually so bad that I don't finish them. But the first 80% of the book was decent enough that I still wanted to see how it ended, even though I felt like hunting down the author and smacking him every time he started yet another sentence with the word "God". I don't do these reviews a lot. This one was enough to make me come here and tell you all about it. God, I'll think twice about reading another book from this author.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice book, but a bit flat at the end,
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This review is from: Demon's Eye (Paperback)
This book is rather like a soda. There's lots of promise and fizz at first, and by the time you reach the last, much of the fizz is gone and it's rather flat.
The story revolves around a group of friends that all pitches together to buy a stately but abandoned mansion on an island. Three pairs of adults and three children set out to see exactly what they've gotten themselves into, but in the end, it's much more than they can handle. The mansion is the site of a murder, and some spirits do not rest easily. The good: a lot of the images are beautifully frightening, such as creeping bighting little black things that can strip someone, skeletons that grab people and try to drown them, and buckets of blood. Also, the book references several classic horror authors such as Bradbury and Poe, so for nerds like me, it's fun to see. The bad: So many things not only fall apart at the end, the people who are left alive seem far too pat and `safe'. It's improbable those are the ones left, with little explanation of how one of them reappeared. (Sorry I can't be more specific, but I can't without giving things away). The ok: The book has a nice pace, over all, and like I said, some of the images are way too much fun, if being scared or grossed out is fun. This is a good book, but not the best example of the horror genre. Still, if you're looking for a decent novel to spend some time with, you could do far worse than this. You could also do better, so be warned and use your best judgment.
3.0 out of 5 stars
For horror fans only.,
By Jim Lay (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Demon's Eye (Paperback)
Let me be right up front: this book is not going to win any awards. The dialogue is silly, the characters are unbelievable caricatures, it's melodramatic, and the plot lacks coherence. (Gresham presents a plot then throws a lot of unexplained stuff into it.) But for horror fans, it is an entertaining yarn with some genuinely creepy scenes that you'll get a kick out of. I would liken this to a drive-in B-horror movie. The locale is creepy and there are some imaginative scenes (especially the "spider creatures".) The plot: Three families visit an old secluded inn to consider buying it as resort. Although the old mansion in the woods appears abandoned, it is occupied by something evil (of course.) It is an entity that can appear as a young man but is actually a kind of demon and it does not want intruders in its home. Within a few days, the group finds themselves trapped and the creature begins to pick them off in some mysterious and nasty ways. Only a young boy with strange powers understands the danger and he alone can fight the demon... Pick this up if you appreciate horror in a b-movie vein. And if you like it, Gresham is a prolific author with more than a dozen horror books to his name, so you have a lot to look forward to. I'm giving this book 3 1/2 stars because Gresham obviously loves the genre and his passion comes across in his writing. I, myself, love horror fiction so much that I read the good and the bad, and I appreciate them both for what they are. For my tastes, there isn't enough horror fiction out there to please me.
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