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Bezig met laden... Dudleytowndoor L.B. Gregg
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Shaalaraharrah was once the favored daughter of a sultan, trained in the art of martial dance. Then (the stories claim), she disobeyed her father and was transformed into a fountain as punishment, doomed to stand alone in his gardens forever, weeping for her folly. In truth, she has become simply Shaala, a warrior wandering the desert in search of a way to lift her curse–one that turned her not into literal stone, but which made her both impervious to pain and incapable of experiencing pleasure. In the land of the River People, she becomes embroiled in a dispute between desert tribes and meets a young man who might be able to break her curse at last–but at a terrible cost. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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With every step Alex and his companions take into danger, he remembers the gruesome ways in which these scenarios always play out in his favorite movies. He alternates feeling real terror with a disassociated-by-shock urge to analyze his own actions as he conforms, or fails to conform, to the time-honored behavior of a soon-to-be victim in a slasher flick. My one tiny regret is that the first sex scene felt too extended and detailed to be believable in the midst of immediate danger. Otherwise, I think Dudleytown sets the bar high and then succeeds beautifully as it manages a perfect balance of humor, genuine suspense and horror, and hot sexual tension.
The novella opens with Alex, Alex’s handsome but straight college roommate Shannon, and a friend Ricky driving through the hilly Connecticut wilderness late one freezing autumn night, looking for a shortcut to get home. Alex frets over being secretly in love with Shannon. Ricky tells creepy stories about the nearby ruins of Dudleytown, a cursed colonial settlement. Shannon drinks beer, then hides the cans as they get stopped by a state trooper, who warns them of a prison-transport accident further in the woods that may have resulted in some escaped convicts.
The boys promise to turn back, but soon get involved in a catastrophic road accident, which leaves Ricky badly injured. When Ricky disappears, it is up to Alex and Shannon to rescue him even though Alex wonders if life is imitating art and he and his secret crush are about to perish in their very own real life version of a horror movie.
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