Review: Literary Horror With Great Suspense, Mystery! Great Read...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2013
With the cover used on Crimson Falls, I expected a really "slasher" story, although I'm not crazy about those--so I was pleasantly surprised that this novel was more literary in nature, with a very good story line, a light look into demonology and not only a couple of professionals, but a couple of teenagers in on the hunt! The professionals were a Catholic Priest, a Protestant pastor and a Native American professor. The two teens were the Sheriff's son and his best friend...And the Sheriff was a wonderful, sharp, gutsy female. Sheriff Anna Blackwood was an elected official but, still, at least one of her men felt he could do the job better and made sure everybody else knew that he would be running against her in the next election. She knew he'd never make it because of his personality... I agreed...LOL!The last member of an old family in the town had been killed. When they found him, there was something strange sticking out from his neck. The ME sent it to the professor, knowing that he would immediately come to be involved.Father McMillan and Pastor Adler had gotten approval from Anna to go into the deceased man's house. They were looking for something in particular. The Father found the entrance under a table in the large library. Soon both were crawling through a small door, only to come out in a small room with a totem!What was this guy into?Your job, should you choose to read this story is to go along with the "hunters" as they try to, first, determine what is killing people--for more individuals had been either killed or wounded--neck wounds of course...So, your killer is somewhere on this review page... or at least somebody's rendition of the monster... (on my blog of course)Those religions that have angels also many time have demons. Alan Brickton had gotten into some deep research and started trying to get in contact! Some demons came and talked to him, but when this one came, he wasn't interested in talking...Trevor and his friend were very much into the comic versions of all these monsters, so much so that when they went hunting, they knew exactly what weapons to take. But he stole them out of the Sheriff's arsenal!And immediately wondered why they had a supply of silver bulletins...But it was the Professor Shaman who had the real magic...Hey, this is an excellent novel! I thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience and was happy to see much more realistic approaches than say, The Exorcist...to horror. It kept me reading, but was not really scary--more suspenseful as readers as well as the hunters searched for their answer...But, this is clearly going to have a sequel...'Cause a pair of eyes watched from the woods as they left the woods...I believe the next book is coming out this month!GABixlerReviews