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5.0 out of 5 stars
the Eagles Hotel California inside John Carpenters Fog, Mar 24 2004
Out of work with no prospects and a lack of cash to tide her over, twenty-five years old Chase Block feels already depressed when her boyfriend Mat vanishes from her life. Despondent, she receives a letter from Storm Enterprises signed by a Nigel Moon informing her that she has won High Top Cottage in Paradise, Staffordshire. As she informs her friend gay amazon Jane, a disbelieving Chase does not remember entering in any contest nor can she find any information on the town.Still when Storm Enterprises' Drake arrives to "collect" Chase, she and Jane go to the village to see her new home. However, seeing is a bit difficult as a thick fog engulfs the town as it has for a couple of years. As Chase finds a book warning of killings, Jane vanishes. Now Chase wonders if she should flee that is if she can escape the fog, but also worries about her friend and two teens who have wandered inside the hazy belt. EVILUTION is classic horror that will frighten readers from the moment the two Londoners arrive at Paradise. The terse story line never eases up as the tension mounts and the audience wonders whether the heroine will survive especially since she obviously was selected and may not be able to leave (the Eagles' Hotel California inside John Carpenter's Fog). This is a terrific tale that genre fans will want to read. Harriet Klausner
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Commendable first novel, Mar 11 2004
This is a commendable first novel. If you want to try a new author who can only get better, then I urge you to read this book. I imagine when he wrote this, he was having fun. There are several horror cliches, but I don't think they are meant to be taken seriously. The style of writing is crisp and fast, and the story keeps you guessing. I look forward to seeing more by Shaun Jeffrey.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Take cover...It's raining cliches..., Feb 29 2004
In the first 50 pages of this "horror" book the following words are mentioned: bats, graveyard, fog, eerie, scary, creaking, shadows, dark, weird, strange, dead, dissapeared, unknown... Ant that's just a small part of the cliches that will bombard you. But it's a horror novel you say and such words are inevitably unavoidable? Well that should be the case to a degree, to a control degree to be precise. But an author who takes a "best of" from all the horror novels he's ever read and throws it together in a massively uninspired assembly isn't going to be rising in the ranks of his contemporaries too soon. This novel is utterly unscary and spectacularly predictable. There's no twists you cant predict, hell, most of the lines coming out of the mouths of the thin characters are so predictable you feel like you've (sadly) read this before. On a more positive note, if you're a beginner with horror novels this might do for you. If however you've endulged in depth in the genre simply forget it. Look elsewhere for your horror fun because this will bore you to a still.
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