Review: Slow pace, lots of horror and gore
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
Chapter One flunks the "hook the reader" test -- it takes several pages for a man out feeding his hogs to face the Evil Thing. Chapter Two plods along until the last page, when a body is discovered. Chapter Three...Four...the action picks up with school bullies picking a fight, and one of the bullied nerds facing That Evil Thing from chapter one, with surprising results.Nothing about the Natives sounded authentic or interesting to me. I'd care more about this novel if the author could show me some real-life basis for the stories and legends. E.g., tales of the chupucabra are based on eyewitness accounts, which doesn't make them credible, but does at least make the stories more interessting.The prose is mostly free of typos and errors, but it's wooden and correct without being particularly engaging.I really had high hopes for this one, based on the synopsis, but after the first 1/3 of the novel, I skipped ahead to the ending and decided it was not something I cared to invest a few more hours of my life in.