Review: Pure psychological horror
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
After reading "A Gathering of Twine" last year, I re-read it before diving into "The Beggar of Beliefs."I expected a good read, and was not disappointed--in either book. I felt like "The A Gathering…" was a new book again, as so many questions got answered! A few are unresolved, but I’m working my way through the other books set in the same universe, and they are all as good – although you don’t need to have read them to get this.I have been a life-long Stephen King fan, and whilst his writing style makes me feel that someone is talking to me,  he’s no longer as scary as he used to be. But, just in time, we have a worthy successor who plays with the ideas of mental illness actually enabling sight into another world, and I could not put this book down.The characters are rich and varied, and the dystopian world is explained through a series of events that seems terrifyingly plausible.There are a series of big twists towards the end. I won’t spoil it, but they left me feeling chilled to the core and terrified at the same time.It doesn't matter how watchful you are – they always wait!