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Another good review on my horror novel "Under" on Horrornews.net
Horrornews.net
click on book review section and click on Under.
"Brad has put together an impressively tight and tense tale of home and neighborhood invasion that I simply could not turn away from once I got started. His King-influenced method of establishing normality while insinuating a slowly but steadily growing threat is marvelously executed to impressive effect. The characters come across as honest, believable and carry a real sense of personality to them and the town itself has a culture and personality to it makes it come alive for me. Despite the short, extremely clunky section I mentioned earlier, his writing style is smooth and evocative, a little witty, pretty damn mean when he needs to be and descriptive without getting bogged down in minor details too often.
Oh, did I mention before that is a flippin MONSTER story? No cliched vamps or zombies either. Just some ugly meanies out there in the dark drooling over our bones and flesh. So few people are writing honest-to-goodness monster tales right now that I go gaga everything I the chance to sink my own teeth into one. Just look back at my review of Abominations for more gushing on this subject.
But, really, what matters is that he managed to get me completely invested in the plight of Jacob Drake and I needed to know how it all turned out for him and his family. For a few hours of my life, nothing else existed. That is all I ask for in a good story."
click on book review section and click on Under.
"Brad has put together an impressively tight and tense tale of home and neighborhood invasion that I simply could not turn away from once I got started. His King-influenced method of establishing normality while insinuating a slowly but steadily growing threat is marvelously executed to impressive effect. The characters come across as honest, believable and carry a real sense of personality to them and the town itself has a culture and personality to it makes it come alive for me. Despite the short, extremely clunky section I mentioned earlier, his writing style is smooth and evocative, a little witty, pretty damn mean when he needs to be and descriptive without getting bogged down in minor details too often.
Oh, did I mention before that is a flippin MONSTER story? No cliched vamps or zombies either. Just some ugly meanies out there in the dark drooling over our bones and flesh. So few people are writing honest-to-goodness monster tales right now that I go gaga everything I the chance to sink my own teeth into one. Just look back at my review of Abominations for more gushing on this subject.
But, really, what matters is that he managed to get me completely invested in the plight of Jacob Drake and I needed to know how it all turned out for him and his family. For a few hours of my life, nothing else existed. That is all I ask for in a good story."
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Permalink Reply by Thomas F Brown on -
Hey Brad, Havent been around in a while but got around to writing a review at Amazon.com. I hope its comes off decently for you. You seem to have a growing number of fans and thats great. Best of success to you.
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