Review: Macabre and brilliant
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2013
A macabre story from the first page, Dark Lullaby is the perfect Halloween read. A beautiful young woman, innocent and sweet, meets a young astrophysicist, Gabriel, and things begin to go terribly wrong. Unfortunately, our intrepid hero Gabriel is intrigued and sexually attracted to the youthful and child-like Kamilah. Despite the mounting oddities going on around him and to the people that he cares for, Gabriel allows himself to be drawn in to such a point that he eventually ends up in Kamilah's hunting grounds with almost no contact to the outside world.What a great story! This is one of those moments where you want to yell at the person (usually on screen) to run the other way or not to open the door---in this case, not to become involved with Kamilah. I was transfixed and helpless as I watched the downward spiral of Gabriel, his twin sister Elena, and his former lover Liz. Unexplained pains, knocking on the walls, phantom babys crying, fatigue, and horrific dreams, author Mayra Calvani has the scary writing skills of one of my favorite authors--Mary Higgins Clark. The tantalizing hints, haunting moments, and eventual battle against evil ranks Dark Lullaby up there with some of the great horror writers of our generation!