Review: Worth the short time in Nightmareland
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2012
I have to get this out there, this was pretty creepy, even in comparison to Mike's debut, The Resurrection.Eunice Ames just had an accident happen while on the way to the hospital to visit her comatose mother. Only to have something really bizarre happen- be allowed to enter an interdimensional doorway to a place far beyond human comprehension at first. Part of the bizarre things that happen is meeting a peculiar cast of characters- the highly pessimistic critter called Mister Mordant, the self-righteous (and obnoxious) Reverend Ash, and the enigmatic nymph known as Sybil. Yet all these characters have strange secrets connected to Eunice and, more importantly, to her mother. So does the strange environments, the nightmaric creatures that don't have to have the obvious frightening imagery to be downright unnerving, and the journey itself.Sure quite a bit of stuff can be seen as obvious allegory, but it feels that that's part of the fun reading.I do hope the creeps continue into Mike's next book, The Telling.