Looking for evil is one thing. Finding is another. When Patricia White re-visits her backwoods home, an atrocious secret from her past isn’t the only thing that begins to haunt her. Creepy, erotic, and relentless, THE BACKWOODS delivers up a new kind of horror in a foreboding terrain of reclusive hillfolk, demented murder mysteries, and soul-searing horror. Has the town Patricia calls home really been cursed? No, it’s been blessed. By an unspeakable evil older than sin.
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At the start of Lee's peculiar and uneasily convincing mix of sex and violence, 40-ish D.C. lawyer Patricia White temporarily leaves her successful practice and her loving husband to console her sister, Judy, after the grisly murder of Judy's brutish husband, Dwayne. Judy lives in Agan's Point, a boondocks Chesapeake Bay town where the sisters grew up. There Patricia relives unhappy memories of her rape years earlier by an unknown assailant and feels unexpected and intense sexual longings for a childhood friend who never left the Point. Eerie and insular squatters and an unscrupulous land developer anxious to eliminate the squatters contribute to the growing mayhem. Lee (City Infernal) throws in some overly convenient supernaturalism toward the end, but if you're still reading by that point, it's a fair bet you won't want to put the book down unfinished. (Dec.)
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
What did you expect???
Dec 8 2005
By William M Miller
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Come on, everyone. The book is called, "The Backwoods". What did you expect? I'm sure Lee blazed through writing this in a matter of weeks -- it has all the standard Lee stuff -- rapes, sex, violent deaths, sex, ridiculous gore, sex, torture, and sex. Look, every few months or so I need my fix of Edward Lee to purge my system. This book worked for me. I had a smile on my face thinking how much fun Edward had writing this. I laughed out loud many times at some of his sexual descriptions. He's not trying to win any awards here. Lighten up. Sure, it's mostly immature, but boy I had a good time.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just not good
Nov 9 2005
By S. Selman
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I had been wanting to read Ed Lee for a while now based on reviews of his previous books and various snippets i'd read along the way. Now i find myself wondering if i will ever read anything else by him ever again. This book simply was not good. It sounded amateurish. The whole thing was rather trite. It was as if someone took a bad romance novelist and gave him a subject and a list of required gore and horror and sat him in front of a computer. And the dialogue, ohh god the dialogue! Bad dialogue will kill a book faster than anything else. I gave it two stars only because i like books that are not afraid to be frank about sex and gore. Otherwise, i consider this book wasted time both on my part and the author's.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Ho-Hum for Gross-Out Horror
Oct 14 2007
By T. Blake Braddy
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The biggest problem with The Backwoods is that the ending seems a little stitched together. Convenient is another word I would use. Sure, I agree with the above review, in saying that once you get to the paranormal elements that you'll probably finish the book anyway. That doesn't make it entirely satisfying.The ending was too rushed, considering just how long and domestic the first act turned out to be. It dragged and set up a few things that didn't turn out as one would expect them to. Once I was almost done, I re-read what actually happened because it seemed to end entirely too quickly.
On the whole, though, the book was pretty good. The characters were fairly likeable, despite the fact that most of them serve the plot to a ridiculous extent. The sexual element did get a bit tiresome, considering that it didn't get resolved in the end very well. It felt as though on every page the size of Patricia's breasts got revealed. That she could see anything at all over them must have been a challenge, especially considering that she was being targeted for much of the book.
On the whole, though, the book was pretty good. The characters were fairly likeable, despite the fact that most of them serve the plot to a ridiculous extent. The sexual element did get a bit tiresome, considering that it didn't get resolved in the end very well. It felt as though on every page the size of Patricia's breasts got revealed. That she could see anything at all over them must have been a challenge, especially considering that she was being targeted for much of the book.
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