Review: . . . for I have sinned - Must Read Dark Blessings
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2012
John Paul Allen wrestles with the horror of humanity and leaves the reader gasping, as they grapple with their own responses to these vivid short masterpieces.Allen has the ability to transport the reader to a place where fear, love, loss, and horror, are deeply ingrained in the words and imagery he so skillfully creates. Hard to nail down, hard to put down, John Paul Allen's words will envelop your senses and fill your mind with worlds and people too real not to believe. For within the characters and places, the reader will find real horror alongside real humanity, and that is why you should read these stories. If nothing else, this is true horror, in its most believable and harrowing guise and this is what makes Allen one of the most interesting and unique writers in the genre.Surprisingly, and most welcome, is the feeling of hope one is left with after reading Allen's haunted prose. Despite the horror, pain, and the turgid subject matter he deals with in most of his stories, John Paul Allen's horror is filled with a sense of humanity and emotional realism, that will leave the reader thinking and feeling, long after the last page has been turned. Like any of Mr Allen's books, I highly recommend this one.William Cook - writer of `Blood Related.'Dark Blessings: A Collection