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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
ouch!,
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This review is from: Possessions (Mass Market Paperback)
This book hurt. I usually can tolerate some silliness in pulp horror, but this book was awful. Moore makes Bentley Little look like James Joyce. A series of drawn out fight scenes makes up the plot. The main character took so many beatings and stayed alive that I thought we were heading towards an Unbreakable finale where he ends up being a superhero. Oh, and they also hit the lottery. This is not early Stephen King, this is more like early Don King.
Skip this one.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
No Moore!,
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This review is from: Possessions (Mass Market Paperback)
Ever since his debut novel, Under The Overtree, the work of James A. Moore seems to be getting worse. He started off very promising, but fell a notch with Fireworks and now fell even further with Possessions. Like Fireworks, his books start off promising but two thirds of the way in take a nose dive. Almost the last hundred pages of Possessions is nothing but a continuous fight scene involving monster after monster, with excessive descriptions on the creepy creatures. Yes, Mr. Moore, I understand they are very yucky things. I don't need a hundred pages describing them! I get it. With that said, Moore is quite talented at character development, but unfortunately those characters are left in a world that I've seen many times before. This was too close to the Body Snatcher films for me. The pace and tone of this book changed drastically in the last hundred pages and really pulled me out of the story. I enjoyed Under The Overtree, so I'll give James A. Moore another chance. But three strikes and you're out.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
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This review is from: Possessions (Mass Market Paperback)
First off, let me say I love horror and I'm always looking for new horror authors to read. This is my first James Moore book. It will be my last. And I'm sorry to say that. I wanted to like this book, I really, really did (in fact, I read over 200 pages before I gave up on it...something I rarely do). I give the book two stars because it starts off great...with well-developed characters, a tragic event juxtaposed with a joyous, surprising one. And then, it degenerates. The characters go from being well-developed, interesting teenagers to being stick figure punching bags (the fight scenes in this book are incredible: incredibly boring...going on for sometimes ten pages at a stretch, stretching into long-winded monotony). The story disappears: it's just man against monster over and over again, with no suspense and the character development so deft at the beginning withers away, so you can't care about what happens to them. Even Moore's writing, which starts out crisp, punchy, and clean lapses into cliche-ridden drivel by the end (something "takes the cake"; someone "gets his clock cleaned"). I wish I could recommend this book. I wish I could have enjoyed it enough to just get through it. If the horror genre is going to flourish, it needs better offerings than this.
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