Review: Uncompromising, unapologetic evil
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
Definitely not for the faint of heart. With very obvious overtones of ritual sacrifice, black magic, torture, and rape this book covers just about every element of darkness one could want, or fear. The author does it very well, too. If I had any complaints it would be that at times I just wanted things to move faster.Right from the moment the main character enters the town that most of this takes place in, things just feel wrong. The sense of wrong is easily conveyed in the descriptive writing, and I love that the author sticks to her guns about darkness. The evil is evil. It doesn't need or want to be healed. It's not going to fall in love with you or suddenly find the light because of love or lust or anything else. No, this evil will happily break you before it eats you, just because it can. Very few writers can do beautiful, horrible evil, and do it well. It seems we've been overrun with darkness that suddenly becomes good, and it's refreshing to see that shattered and stomped on in this book.Simply as a horror novel it stands alone with its dark, spooky, and uncompromising take on evil. I love it.