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5.0 out of 5 stars
what a ride,
By A Customer
This review is from: One Rainy Night (Mass Market Paperback)
I have read about 15 or so of Laymon's books, and this one is by far my favorite one. I love Laymon books for the raw energy in most of them. This one I think has been the most bloody and demented. How scary to think that a drop of rain can turn you into some kind of psycho, sadistic killer! This is one wild ride that grabs you by the throat, and if you are lucky lets go at the last page.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Thrill Ride of the Highest Caliber,
By Ferdy (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Rainy Night (Mass Market Paperback)
I wasn't really enthused about this book after reading the first chapter. I actually put it down for a couple of days which is unusual for me. But boy oh boy when I picked it up again, it grabbed me and wouldn't let go. A black rain is turning ordinary people into homicidal cannibalistic maniacs (think Living Dead). Only those who get wet are affected so the folks who were inside when the rain started have to do whatever it takes to survive the night. And the ending is a real original. Don't miss out on the thrills of this one!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too many loose ends,
By cesarcarlos (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Rainy Night (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm not really a big fan of gore. I'd rather read a psychological thriller or a good old fashioned ghost story. However it's not the gore the reason I give the book a low rating. Seen from a distance the plot is SO simple. You have this rain that makes people insane, some key characters manage to stay dry and live through the night in "Night of the Living Dead" style -locking up themselves, fighting with makeshift weapons. One of these characters has a theory of why the whole thing is happening and, as it turns out, it really WAS the reason. What I really disliked about this book was a number of far fetched situations and some terribly loose ends. You have this rain that makes people stark raving mad, which is pretty well stated in the first quarter of the novel when the killings start out of the blue. But then these insane people start displaying intelligence, plotting against their intended victims. You have scenes where "crazies" run naked in the street holding knives above their heads, mixed with "crazies" that think "it would be better to drive to this other house so the people in the house I intend to brake into have no idea"... Another loose end -probably the worst in the book- is the character of Sandy, who suddenly appears in the final third of the book, and near the end is the only one who inexplicably can control the effect of the rain on herself, up to the point where she leads the group that will eventually come face to face with what is causing the black rain. Another one? You have Tom, Lynn and Casey in the restaurant, outnumbered, pinned to the floor, ready to be slain and all of a sudden their attackers are gunned down. Who gunned them down? Who knows. Other really hard to believe scenes, like a mother telling the babysitter "it's ok to ask your boyfriend to come while we are gone" (yeah, right) helped in me not really liking this book, and, again, it had nothing to do with the gore. A two and a half star actually.
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