Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780515139686
ISBN number: 0515139688
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: May 31, 2005
Publishing house: Jove
Sale Popularity Level: 603578
Studio: Jove
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Serenity Falls is dead. No commerce, tourism, or good will. It gets worse.
An historian has uncovered the town's unspeakable past: lynchings, mass murders, sexual depravity, and rumors of the birth of the anti-Christ. But the darkest secret is yet to be revealed--in the Serenity Falls trilogy.
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I was very suprised how good this book was! I'm a fan of the early Stephen King books, and this one is right up there with them, and better than King's later books (in my opinion).
Moore creats a great 'mysterious hero' that works his way through the story.
Buy all three in the series at the same time.
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This was the very first book I have read that actually made me angry for being such a remarkable piece of garbage. How did this get published? And two more books to follow? Unbelievable waste of paper! This book is just a ludicrous mish mash of poor plotting. You can buy this book used through Amazon sellers for 1 cent. One penny! And this book is still NOT worth it.
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A style that takes some getting used to, but enough surprises to hold the reader's interest. Well done.
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Serenity Falls - one of those little town names that just ensures everything is anything but serene. This is a fairly enjoyable story that doesn't ever get bogged down with boredom. Each chapter is broken into three parts. Part 1 deals with modern day older writer Simon Magruder (sic?) and his attempts to research the history of Serenity Falls to write a book. Part 2 deals with flashbacks into the history of Serenity Falls itself, meting out the dirty events of the town. Part 3 jumps over to Jonothan Crowley, a paranormal Hunter with magic abilities; he travels about facing off with the likes of demons, witches, vampires, etc. The very first two parts of each chapter are of course interlocked, but Crowley doesn't connect with the rest of the story yet but you know he will.
Overall, quite interesting and you'll read it pretty quickly and be ready to move onto the subsequent book in the series. It's enjoyable and could easily be turn into a movie or miniseries/TV series. I could see Jason Statham as Crowley. This book is worth checking out but it's far from concluded.
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The back of this book makes its story sound very intriguing. The problem is, the back of the book is about all you need to read. I kept waiting for the plot to pick up, for the chills to set in, but they never did. Not only is Writ in Blood startingly not scary, it seemed as though Moore couldn't make up his mind on whether or not he actually wanted it to be.
The scenes with Crowley were as unlikely and fantastical as they were sarcastic, the characters shallow caricatures. Moore has some cleverness, and as a wry parody of horror, this might have worked, except that the little bit of wit was bogged down by confusion; Is this a creepy, subtle tale of small town evil or outlandish Buffy the Vampire Slayer? If the answer was intended to be "both," Moore doesn't pull it off. The chapters' three styles don't mesh well, his ideas are clever, but not orginal, and the characters, some interesting and some wooden, remain distant and impersonal. His writing style is short and sweet, but lacks feeling and intrigue, leaving me wondering if the rest of the series will be equally as dry. And well, this very first installment is just not scary. And for me, that's an automatic disqualification from being termed good "horror."
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