Review: If you read at night, prepare for Nightmares
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2013
I couldn't read this book late at night!This book kicks off with a horrific bang and fills your imagination with scenes of madness and gore. It begins with a witch, who, due to her treatment by the townsfolk of Crossfall, curses all their descendants to suffer in nasty ways. They bury her in a field after several attempts to kill her, but this witch just won't die. A few hundred years later we are introduced to these 'descendants' and all their juicy little secrets.There is not a single person in Cressfall who I consider entirely sane. There are murdered wife-battering husbands, dead bodies in freezers, voodoo love spells, circus freaks and a perverted mailman. Everything is going on in this small town and I pretty much loved almost all the characters.Steve Vernon writes in a similar style to what I have seen in Stephen King novels. He tells the story from a dozen POVs, each with their own style of talking, their own naughty secret and their own personalities. All these stories begin to blend, starting a sequence of events that triggers the curse and wakes the witch. An unsuspecting Maddy, who has lived through years of torment and pain at the hands of her husband, Vic, comes to the end of her tether and hits him and buries him in the same field as the Witch. He comes back to life as the Tatterdemon, a servant of the witch, and hopes to build himself a terrifying undead army. And that isn't all....the dead are coming back to haunt the people of Crossfall!I really liked this book. The characters were well developed, the story is fun and scary and gory. Somewhere in the middle I did become a little desensitized to the gore, but towards the third part I quickly became freaked out again. I will look forward to reading more by this Author