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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A surprisingly good horror/thriller,
This review is from: Ferocity (Mass Market Paperback)
Cath and her daughter have just moved out to the country, after Cath's husband was horribly murdered. In the countryside, Cath hopes to escape her grief and pain, to write her novels in solitude. Her new neighbor, Drew, is also recovering from a spouse's horrible death. Drew was once a successful farmer; after his wife died, he left all that behind. The only thing that keeps him going now is his new hobby: trying to prove the existence of the Big Cats.
For Drew has seem them: black as a panther, yet bigger and more ferocious. Their camoflage abilities are almost supernatural; their scent is musky and dense. They are out there, hiding, waiting, biding their time; but now a violent storm is coming, along with violent humans, and the Big Cats and humans will come face-to-face... "Ferocity" was surprisingly good. Normally, horror novels of this nature tend to be paint-by-numbers efforts; fortunately, Stephen Laws is a capable writer, who turns a cliched (but interesting) story into a wonderful (and still interesting) novel. The characters (human and demonic feline) are deep and believable; the atmosphere, especially during the final hundred pages, is tense and almost unbearable. This novel isn't flat-out scary, but it IS entertaining, and provides an excellent tale to keep you awake at night.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stephens Laws is a force to reckon with,
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This review is from: Ferocity (Mass Market Paperback)
"Ferocity" is a fun thrill-ride; I wouldn't even call it horror, because there aren't really many aspects of horror - I honestly don't consider wild animals acting like wild animals DO to be horrific, but that's just me! Whomever wrote the description on the back of the book got it ALL wrong, so don't go by what it says. Here's the essential plot in a nutshell:
Cath and Drew are neighbors who haven't met. Both had spouses killed in tragic accidents - Cath's husband was stabbed while they were visiting New York to celebrate her first book being made into a movie and Drew's wife fell into a harvesting combine when the brake that was holding it on the hill vibrated free and it started moving. One night, while Drew is driving home, a reckless driver runs him off the road in front of Cath's house. Cath's housekeeper - Fay - who also taught Drew while he was in school, comes out and hauls him into the house. When Fay roaps them both into giving a talk about their personal specialities - Cath is a novelist (one of the few things the description on the cover did right) and Drew has been tracking the Big Cats of the Northumberland Fells for several years. Many people believe the Big Cats to be a myth, but the farmers who are losing livestock are not amused. Drew has actually had an upclose & personal with one of them and he recalls them as being much larger than the panther they resemble and having some way of remaining unseen, even in areas in which they should be readily visible. After the talk they all go out to dinner and of course Drew and Cath hit it off. A few days later Drew calls Cath over to announce he has hit a Big Cat with a tranquilizer dart but when they go to check on it, it has somehow escaped; leaving being a spitting, clawing cub that itself is two feet long and a foot high, even though it is only 3 months old. It unfortunately gets itself caught in the net that Drew had put up to keep the older one in and while they are trying to extricate the little one, the big one attacks. When they are forced to shoot the big one again - in the mouth - to save their lives, Drew is horribly afraid they might have given it an overdose, so they haul it home, putting it into a cage that Drew built over the years. A major storm is rising - one that no one has been able to forecast, which has happened increasingly over the past few years - and the two are overcome with passion, coming to themselves just in time to hear the Big Cat die, which upsets Drew, as he never meant to hurt him. Add murderous drug runners into the mix, who take Cath and Drew hostage after Cath rescues them from a car accident of their own, and the momma Big Cat, who comes looking for her mate in the middle of the storm, and this book, especially the last half of it, is quite a page turner. I admit I would have preferred this to be more in English-speak rather than Americanized, but it was still a terrific book and Stephen Laws knows, like no other, how to spin an eerie thriller. Don't miss it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Cool cover, other than that it kinda stinks,
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This review is from: Ferocity (Mass Market Paperback)
This is my second time reading Stephen Laws and my second time being bored and frustrated with his style. I guess he's not the writer for me, which saddens me because his ideas are pretty interesting. This looked so promising, the lovely cover that reflects my morning mood when I have to get up for work, the man eating beast idea with a twists, yeah ...I was bored to tears reading it, in fact it was one book that I wasn't in a rush to finish, it was dry, dull and uninspiring, I hate to describe a book in such a way but I disliked it even more when I finally finished it then when I was stuck half way through the ridiculous plotline...the lame characters, the strange cat creature one knows nothing about when the last page is turned, the flat and annoying bad guys at the end that only seemed to ruin the story...and never mind that at some points the tale is told form the view of the giant cat and even from the little girl's point of view, who's mom is one of the most boring characters ever created. That to me was a speed bump every time the story seemed to get somewhere...I wouldn't categorize this as horror, there's not one scary moment in here, and the writing was a bit tough to get through, I found it lackluster and a bit confusing at times, it read like a low budget movie that should have never been released.
Basically this book is about two people who have lost a loved one in the past. Neighbors who I guess never looked at each other before, who seem to suddenly make a match. Unfortunately a huge storm is coming and at the same time some drug smuggling whackos are in town, on top of that there's the big black cat mystery going around...all this gets stirred with a crooked spoon to make a batch of stinky bad story soup. Maybe, just maybe if Cath wasn't pathetic (who laughs at a bum on the street holding you up for money, so your husband can get stabbed and killed) and her love interest wasn't uninteresting and the giant cant didn't do invisible camouflage then the tale would be better but I disliked it tremendously and I think I'm done reading his books, I get no pleasure from his stories, that's quiet clear by now. - Kasia S.
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