Dust

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Summary: It was like Needful Things for young adults
Review: I loved this book. I felt the same as many other readers, why haven't I heard of it. The imagery was very graphic, I felt as if I was in a film at times. The closest parallel I can make is Stephen King's Needful Things. The evil characters in each story are very similar. This is easy to follow and great preparation to adult fiction.

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Summary: "Seven Years Old is too Young to Walk to Town."
Review: It's a prairie town, some people have cars, most drive horses. It hasn't rained for a long time. Young Matthew is going into town to spend his nickle on candy. He is dreaming of candy when a pickup appears down the dusty road. Abram Harsich convinces Matthew he should hop in and get a ride to town. Matthew vanishes off the face of the earth.
Eleven-year-old Robert dreams of science fiction novels and longs to read "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", but he's Matthews older brother, and he hears the pickup coming down the road. He can't tell how he knows but he sees the pickup in his mind. He thinks he should have gone into town with seven-year-old Matthew. "Seven years old is too young to walk to town.."
Abram Harsich begins a campaign to convice the whole town that he can build a rain mill and end the draught. His fancy mirror show begins to cast a spell over the the people of Horseshoe. More children go missing. But the spell is one of forgetting. Somehow, only Robert remembers.
This book is simply marvelous. YOU will be spellbound, too.

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Summary: Magical
Review: Magical Realisim at its best. Robert's younger brother vanishes on the way to town. A rainmaker soon appears. Things aren't what they seem and people are forgetting what they ought to remember. All but Robert. Arthur Slade imbue's DUST with magic to spare. A wonderful read and not easily forgotten.

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Summary: Eerie and thought provoking
Review: This book is in no means what I thought it was going to be. I am into all the mysteries and stuff and this book turned out to be fantasy, and I am not a fantasy lover at all. But even I know that fantasy can be well written and in this case it was not. The books plot had no flow to it and it seemed as if Arthur Slade had to meet a dead line by the way the ending was written. I just was not happy after completeing this book and I would not recommend it to anyone even fantasy lovers!