Off Season
Ratings17
Average rating3.4
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Ratings17
Average rating3.4
September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River--off season--awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall.... And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.
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Gruesome! The amount of body limbs flying off is quite staggering.
But that's not the most shocking. Not even the cannibalism. No, the most shocking was when Carla threw her lunch bag into the stream! It really give you a real sense of the era which this was written, when trash was tossed wherever you were. Back when Indians cried pleading for a cleaner America. It really stood out to for me to read that.
This book is very neutral to me. I didn't love it or hate it either.
This is just trashy horror, and usually I like them but this was just not a fit for me.
This was giving 80s horny teenagers on a vacation cabin while a serial killer is loose in the forest behind. And trust me, I love that kind of campy horror, but this lacked any dimension. It just fell so flat for me.
Probably is a product of it's time, since it was actually published in 1980.
I don't see any reason to continue reading.
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2 primary booksDead River Series is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Jack Ketchum.
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