Review: Nevermore Lovecraft
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2014
Picking up exactly where "A Gathering of Twine" left off, this tour de force of psychological horror reminds me of Poe, Lovecraft and Stephen King at their finest.We rejoin the aging George, the morally ambiguous Celus and the naive Freeman as their tale of battling an impossible god and her raven hoard speeds towards its terrifying conclusion.Along the way we see not only their crisis and personal struggles, but also how the effect of their actions ripples outwards, effecting everyone they know and love. Into this maelstrom of catastrophe of mayhem, we see the central tenet that underpins these tales:"We are all architects of our downfall" - this bleak theme is as engrossing as it gives rise to the desire to fight against it.The action is gritty, and once-again merges historical fact with a sense of magical reality, as the story takes us through the fireball over Tunguska, to the banks of The Dead Sea to quaint English countryside where a darkness lurks.The subtext to this leaves much to ponder; do we ever really know our family and friends? What is it that we really pray to? And how much would we pay to expose the truth?Presenting like the best conspiracies of The X-Files with the mystery of The Twilight Zone, this gripping novel will have you turning the pages long into the night.A must read.