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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't have gotten any worse!,
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This review is from: Friday The 13th #2: Hell Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
I couldn't put this book down, not because it was so good mind you, but because I wanted to see just how bad it was going to get. This was one truly awful book. The premise of the book sounded intriguing and I was really looking forward to enjoying this book as much as I did the first in this series. But, man this was bad. First, 99% of the book doesn't even take place at Camp Crystal Lake, but some college campus. The idea is simple, Jason goes to the lowest level of hell (a nice nod to Dante) and is "convinced" to kill his way up the levels of hell to make his way back to the surface world and kill some more. Only his return is more like the 80's flick Shocker and much less like a Friday the 13th movie. The author goes out of his to make Jason a lifeless moron who whimpers like a baby when he's injured. I could go on, but please skip this book. Read the previous book in the series and pretend this installment never happened. God knows I'm trying to erase it from my mind as I write this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly written,
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This review is from: Friday The 13th #2: Hell Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
According to Amazon author Paul A. Woods is, among other things, a researcher. This is not apparent from reading this book.
I was not expecting a literary classic but at least some accuracy would have been nice. Much of the book reads like bad fanfiction. The author introduces a Jason Voorhees who is willing to follow the requests of someone other than his mother. Jason also uses a hunting rifle as a hunting rifle rather than a club or spear. The poor mischaracterization of the main character stands as the most glaring error in the book. This is not the only error in the book however. The author also introduces a laser pointer with the ability to burn flesh, a .48 caliber handgun, and a pump-action double-barreled shotgun. The ending of the book is forced and makes little sense. It reads as though the author was told to hurry and decided to kill several characters out of spite. Waste of money and time.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Judge Other Books in This Great Series by This!,
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This review is from: Friday The 13th #2: Hell Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
Hell Lake is nowhere near the high quality of the other novels in this 25th Anniversary series. Rest assured no other Friday the 13th novel is written by Paul Woods, other novels in this series such as Carnival of Maniacs by Stephen Hand and Hate-Kill-Repeat by Jason Arnopp, the Sensational alternative sequel to Friday the 13th Part 7 relate well to the classic movies made over the past 25 years. In fact the best of them refer to events in those movies as historical facts. This has not been done well by Paul Woods at all. Hell Lake is a completely different storyline novel that unlike the other mentioned novels could not immediately be made into another movie in the ongoing classic series. One other novel in this series also varies greatly from the norm and seems to have the adding of Jason as an afterthought after the author's agent discovered there will be a 25th Anniversary series. That book was the Jason Strain by Christina Faust, but at least that would have been good a read in its original form without Jason in it, I can't say the same thing for Hell Lake.
The other novels are easy smooth flowing reads you sit back, turn the pages and enjoy. I found Hell Lake hard to stick with simply because it was so badly written. I had to force myself to keep reading this and only did so because I paid money for it and had been looking forward to it for so long. I guess there's a good reason why there aren't as many copies of Hell Lake in print as the other books. In case you have no idea what Hell Lake is about it's the story of low life who thinks of himself as Devil Boy. He is executed in Florida for his crimes and disappointed that the devil is not waiting to congratulate him in hell. Hell is not the place he thought it would be, he has been sent to the lowest level along with history's worst people where all they do is stand around for all eternity hemmed in like cattle. There he finds Jason (and how did he get here, this is never explained considering he's undead and all so this makes no sense) who even in these cramped conditions has a wide birth around him. He decides to team up with Jason to escape and fight their way out of their predicament. For some reason Jason becomes his sidekick, again in flow with the norm this makes no sense. Meanwhile a university party in the woods of Camp Crystal ends up in terror, terror which later moves onto campus. Paul Woods seems confused at times here, wanting to write a novel about minorities being mistreated by police rather than a mass murder hacker slasher novel. This is one of the many glaring examples that Jason was an added afterthought to a previously written story that no one would publish before. Read the other books in this great series but if this isn't in your local library don't waste your money tracking it down.
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