Stevie is a killer. When she kills people she asks them: "WHAT DO YOU SEE?" She's about to find out...After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people -- everyone she's ever pissed off. They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her. But she finds herself drawn back to this place, again and again, determined to unlock its secrets. Which means she has to die, again and again. And she starts to wonder whether other people see the same room! when they die. The most disturbing novel of 2009. Read it if you dare. FILE UNDER: Horror [Real-Life Terror / Damaged Lives / Family Secrets / Beyond Death]
Slights (Angry Robot)
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"With outstanding control, Warren manipulates Stevie's voice to create a portrait of horror that in no way reads like a first novel." - Publishers Weekly (Starred) Pick of the Week "Kaaron Warren is a fresh, amazingly talented voice out of Australia. You *must* read her work." - Ellen Datlow "Hugely and genuinely disturbing" - SciFi Now "Simply gut-wrenching" - Jon Courtenay Grimwood, SFX "Powerful stuff. So powerful, in fact, that my throat was hurting with my attempts to keep my emotions under control. I was completely drawn in, totally immersed. I felt ill much of the time." - Russell Kirkpatrick, bestselling author of "Across the Face of the World"
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Kaaron is an award-winning Australian writer of short fiction, and her stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the British Fantasy Award-winning The Alsiso Project, and the recent Poe and Haunted Legends collections. Other short fiction awards include the Ditmar Award (twice) and the Aurealis Award.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Visiting the dark room described is easier than reading this,
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This review is from: Slights (Angry Robot) (Mass Market Paperback)
(Contains spoilers, this whole book is a spoiler)
Wow, I am either incredibly stupid, stubborn or both because it took sheer iron will to finish this book. Chapter after chapter of this girl Steve (Stephanie) droning on and on about freaking nothing. It was an endless cycle. She lives like a pig, she goes out of her way to offend others, she describes someone she hates, she digs in her yard, she wonders about the room she saw when she had her near death experiences, she attempts suicide, she talks about her dead father and she tries to keep a relationship with her brother. This is the same formula for almost every effing boring chapter. The book's jacket calls Steve a killer, but she does not kill anyone until 3/4 the way through! All she does through out the book is "slight" as many people as she can. The author seems to have tried and failed miserably to combine parts of Chuck Palahnuik's Fight Club with what she thought would have been in Kevin Spacey's diaries in Se7en. The one twist in the book is telegraphed a mile away. Let me save you some time and aggravation, her father was a killer too! There, I saved you many hours of unentertaining reading. This book is filed under horror and suspense; it should be filed under cat litter box liner. I know I am going to tick off this book/author's fans, but so be it. I think there is a reason no one is reviewing it or her new book, because they stink, no one likes them and is buying them. I recommend this book to absolutely no one, unless you are avoiding it or using it to start your grill.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting premise, sloppy execution,
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This review is from: Slights (Angry Robot) (Kindle Edition)
While Slights started off interesting, I found that it took far too long to get anywhere, and by the time it did, I was already pretty disenchanted with a protagonist who is, to be frank, pretty all-around repulsive. You can have a book with a killer for a "hero", but the thing to remember is that to do so, you need to make him or her likable or relatable to a certain degree, and Stevie is neither. Not only that, she fails to be interesting or entertaining.
The novel drags on for far too long, with pages after pages devoted to how Stevie dislikes this person or that person for this arbitrary reason. And, honestly, I didn't care about them either because there's a disappointing lack of characterization going on. There's nothing particularly scary or unsettling going on, and even the vaguely otherworldly bits come across as flat and unengaging because the book is told from Stevie's perspective and she reacts to everything with all the emotion and personality of a rock. The first scene, describing Stevie's near-death experience and a trip to the other realm, should have been terrifying, but it was just related in far too bland and matter-of-fact a way. It was like reading a power point presentation on someone's vacation. Warren's narrative has an odd, slippery cadence to it that means it was far too easy for my mind to wander, and after about 150 pages I realised I was still waiting for the book to "start getting good" and had to give up on it. Maybe the rest of the book dispenses live kittens and delicious candy every time you turn a page. I wouldn't know, because for me, I don't care to waste time reading a book I'm not enjoying NOW just on the promise that it might get better eventually. Definitely not for everyone, though I had high hopes. Definitely try a sample before you commit to buying the whole thing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Boring, Unfulfilling, and NOT scary,
By Sophie (Southern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slights (Angry Robot) (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm surprised I managed to get through this book. It's slowly paced and tedious, and the characters are all bland. I actually spent the whole book WISHING something horrible would happen to the main character, she was that unlikeable. While the prose was actually very good, the book rambled and didn't seem to have a clear direction until after the middle, and the ending was very dissatisfying. There are some really elegant bits of writing in the book, but as a whole it is slow, boring, and decidedly NOT scary at all. I would not recommend this book.
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