Review: Spooktacular !!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2011
I am a lover of all things that go bump in the night, and I must also admit a lover of Stuart Land, author. I have just finished Back from the Dead a true sequel to Frankenstein, Stuart's newest release, although not his newest book. This was written a few years ago, and re-released this month. While he has written a good book with a great story, I can see his growth as a writer even more in his newer books that I have read and reviewed here for the Paranormal Romance Guild. Penelope and I have reviewed both as Dual Reviews and individual reviews Original Blood, Shadow House and Epiphany. I am amazed at the topics this writer can jump to and hold me mesmerized with both his descriptions and words.For this book Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein again comes to life in this very interesting depiction of what would happen if...Sergio Carrera is a cryobiologist, living in Florida with his wife Sophia, a psychologist. Serge is called to fly up to the Northern wilds to look into something that was found frozen in the Arctic tundra. Imagine his surprise and fear after boring a hole thru the ice and running some tests on the matter drawn out, to find that whatever it is, the tissue showed life. Mr. Land describes in detail the bringing back of this astounding find to Florida. The lab techs were on 24 hour rotation watching the progress of the defrost. They find as the ice melts slowly but surely away, they have found Frankenstein, and he lives.Sergio and his wife are true soul mates. He enlists her expertise as a psychologist to be able to to engage in talk with the Monster, after all, he has been encased by ice for 200 years, and now they may find so many secrets: one of eternal life, of the truth to the Frankenstein myth and Sergio's desire to help mankind. The secrecy is not easily kept, and now the battle rages between helping a monster and learning the truth.Sergio and Sophia are tested both in what they believe, their love for each other, and their attachment to Frankie. I laughed at this nickname they called this eight foot tall monster.  The book held me entranced, but also with a heavy heart, as through all that I read I kept on feeling... the other shoe was going to fall. As we the reader were taken back 200 years through the dreams of the monster to discern what was truth and what was fiction in the rampages and killings of this monster made by a monster, Victor Frankenstein. Were all the stories true, or was Frankie just a bull in a china shoppe ?Mr. Land takes us again on a story of what agendas people have, what makes people do what they do for lust, power, and greed. There is always a hope in his stories, not only for his characters but for all mankind to take a look at themselves and maybe do what is right. After all we have a 50/50 chance. Right?Stuart Land has become for me a leader in his field as a writer, and since I have been  introduced to his books, he is an author I truly admire and respect. I truly hope from my humble opinion you would take the time to look him up and pick one of his stories that tweaks your interest. I do not think you will be sorry.Review by Gloria LakritzSenior Review and Review Chair of the Paranormal Romance Guild