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Disconnection

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Train was my favorite play, thank you, Miss Samiloglu, for bringing such an extreme collage of emotions to a medium that has been dead for too long. Furthermore, your book was awsome, I was miserable and scared and laughing and crying all at once, but I would love to see another play of yours. (just a suggestion)

I've been a big fan of Erin Samiloglu's plays (Train was the best thing I've seen on stage EVER) so I was worried that she would mistep by attempting a book. But after reading it, its clear that she is an all-around exceptional writer. Disconnection is not only a study in fear, but a prose on religion and the people that go overboard inthis day and age where fanaticism has made a comeback. It is also character-driven, with images that pop off the page. It had me guessing to the very end! Now I want to see the movie!!!

This book was amazing and I found myself hooked onto it more than any other book i've ever read. It is a dark and mysterious plot and brilliant descriptions which seems like you are actually in the story itself. Well done to Samiloglu!! I'd recommend this book to anyone who loves mysterious horror novels or even people who don't. It is absolutely worth the time to read!!!!!!!

Spelling: numerous spelling issues, from misspelled words to duplicate words, to words left out.

The plot: acceptable and enjoyable through the first half of the book, then it seems that another author picked up the writing and the plot became totally unrealistic.

Thoughts:

You can tell Samigolu has a background in film (the book reads more like a movie on paper)

I didn't care for the rushed ending BUT

is page turner

and will read her next one, definately

you have to wonder what kind of person can come with this s___. hey, i read this and watched the grudge in one freakin night, but guess which one had me hearing things that go bump in the night. wheres the movie, wheres the sequal, more more more

Okay politics aside (liberal innuendos abound), this book is rockin sockin beatin my noggin joy ride.

I read the book in one day and was sleeping with the lights on that night. I concur with the previous review, however, the stage needs Samiloglu. Anyone who hasn't seen Train should consider themselves deprived. In the meantime, read this book.
PS I want a part in the movie. Thanks.

NOTE TO MS SAMILOGLU: Please do not leave your stage work behind. My friends and I have seen all your work and we have been waiting for ages for your comeback. But we really enjoyed the book, and if you like Stephen King, John Saul, all of those guys, this is the book for you.

Residents of the Big Easy are not living up to the city's nickname as fear has gripped New Orleans. A serial killer has been mutilating young females before dumping the corpse into the nearby Mississippi River. Because the victims are tattooed with weird diagrams, New Orleans Homicide Detective Lewis Kline concludes that the killer is performing some form of a ritual slaying. As his hemorrhoid flared up, he knows that in a city like New Orleans there is virtually no clue as the occult shines big time here.

Following a nightmare, Sela Warren goes to the Black Kitchen on Bourbon Street with her friend Mandy who deserted her, but left her cell phone behind when it rings. Thinking it is Mandy, Sela feels compelled to answer the ringing phone, but quickly regrets that she did. The caller says she is Chloe Applegate, the serial killer's last victim. Sela is shocked with the impossibility of apparently either hearing from the dead or more likely a cruel trick, but will soon realize how deep the insanity can go when evil comes calling for her.

DISCONNECTIONS is a strong thriller that moves on two levels, that of a police procedural struggling to stop a serial killer from murdering again and that of a paranormal connection between Sela and the malevolence coming for her. Readers will be hooked from the moment Sela picks up the phone and keep reading to learn whether the supernatural in terms of the devil or a devilish killer are behind the homicides and the assault on the heroine's senses. Erin Samiloglu writes a powerful who-done-it that is part wonder suspense and part supernatural thriller.

Harriet Klausner