David Graham (12)

Review:

A groups of schoolgirls attempt a magic spell which goes wrong, while Dai Williams is dealing with his new found fame after he saves the Queen's life. I did not realize that this was the second book in the series and I will be reading the first one. Full of strange and curious events, it was certainly entertaining. I liked the mix of telepathy along with the mystery of what happened with the mobile phones. I'm sure more is explained in book one, but there was enough here to keep me reading. I would definitely recommend it.… (meer)

I will keep this short as I do not feel it's fair to give a full review on a book that I was unable to finish.

It's not very often that I give up on a book. I have tortured myself for months, determined to finish a book in the past with mixed results, all the while staring longingly at my bookshelves for any kind of reprieve. Every now and then, you get lucky and a book will pick up speed and turn into every thing you could hope for. Sometimes, you aren't so lucky.

I made it about half way through this book before deciding to give up. Unfortunately, I could just not "click" with this book and found the pace was not matching the excitement I had when first reading the summary. I had built this up in my head as being a horror story, but found it to be more mystery/thriller and while the summary discusses Ceri and her friends and being "drawn into a world where prophecies are pitted against invisible forces", there is hardly any focus on this in the first half of the book.

I am not saying that this is not a good book, it currently has a 4.78 star rating on Goodreads, this book was just not for me. With the bulk of the plot taking place in the UK, I spent a lot of time researching places, stores, words, etc to understand them in the context that they were being used and could just not justify spending this much time and energy on a book that was just not keeping me enthralled.

If you read this book, I hope you have better luck than I did! If you enjoyed David Graham's other book The Screaming then you should also enjoy this book and I encourage you to give it a try as this is a sequel to that book. If you have not read The Screaming, do not fret as this book can also be read independently as it provides enough back story that you can follow along. One of the other reviews I saw said this book is a mix of The Conjuring, Constantine and Broadchurch, so if you are fans of any of these, then give it a try!… (meer)

A truly fabulous horror story. The Screaming is a horrific mystery with plenty of blood lust and violence. A deadly viral trend has spread across the ocean. It seems teens are killing their families and than committing suicide. The only thing left behind is a video and a haunting scream. An international team is assembled with some of America's finest and Britain's clandestine services are racing to find the cause so they can stop the slaughter before it's to late. I highly recommend for hard core horror fans.… (meer)