Review: A Fate Worse than the Afterlife
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
An amazing sequel to the original Adduné the novel focuses mainly on Miranda Perry as she realises the true horror to which she has condemned herself by engaging with Peter Adduné. Her fate in the debauched excess of 18th century Paris is truly horrifying, and the writing has a but churning intensity, resignation, pain and sheer malevolence that makes it stick with the reader long after the novel is finished. Miranda is not condemned to the proverbial "Fate worse than death" but rather a fate made worse because of eternal life.In the modern day the repercussions of the rogue vampire circles killing spree are being felt. The author describes a wide variety and intensity of reactions, from the disbelief and deep rage of a father hell bent on revenge (and whose money and power has never denied him anything) to a mother almost shut down by hellish grief and her sheer strength of will to hold herself together until resolution is made.The ending of the novel takes another twist, and a surprising turn that again was not forseen. Overall the novel is a classic of the horror genre, relying not so much on blood and gore, nut on the power of imagination and the depths of evil a mind can conjure from skilfully wrought words. Recommended highly to anyone who likes their horror strong and true.