Rhiannon
A new fungal-horror novel set in the Clackamas-Mount Hood area. The opening paragraphs of this rather busy horror story start out with great promise and some beautifully esoteric and dark prose setting up the location of the dark, saturated green forests where the local wildlife is behaving rather peculiarly, an exotic Strangeness is creeping, people keep disappearing into the woods and/or getting zombified, and there may be a serial killer at large...
There's a lot happening here with all that and I think it's all maybe too much. I could have done without the serial killer subplot and would have probably enjoyed this more if it had just stuck to the mysterious spreading corruption. There is some really beautiful writing, but when the story moves to the (rather large) group of friends and their various exploits I kinda got bored. I didn't really connect with any of the (human) characters – they just weren't that interesting to me.
There's a lot of movement in the plot so this would probably appeal to those looking for more of a straightforward action-y horror. Not a bad story, it just didn't really grab a strong hold of me.
My thanks to Netgalley and TOR Nightfire for the ARC. All opinions are my own.
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
A new fungal-horror novel set in the Clackamas-Mount Hood area. The opening paragraphs of this rather busy horror story start out with great promise and some beautifully esoteric and dark prose setting up the location of the dark, saturated green forests where the local wildlife is behaving rather peculiarly, an exotic Strangeness is creeping, people keep disappearing into the woods and/or getting zombified, and there may be a serial killer at large...
There's a lot happening here with all that and I think it's all maybe too much. I could have done without the serial killer subplot and would have probably enjoyed this more if it had just stuck to the mysterious spreading corruption. There is some really beautiful writing, but when the story moves to the (rather large) group of friends and their various exploits I kinda got bored. I didn't really connect with any of the (human) characters – they just weren't that interesting to me.
There's a lot of movement in the plot so this would probably appeal to those looking for more of a straightforward action-y horror. Not a bad story, it just didn't really grab a strong hold of me.
My thanks to Netgalley and TOR Nightfire for the ARC. All opinions are my own.
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.