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Summary: better than her first
Review: I was wandering around in Walden's looking for the horror section, finally coming across the very small selection, and I thought I would pee my pants when I found a new Caitlin R Kiernan novel. I took it home, opened it and fell in love at the first sentence. Threshold is even better than Silk, and I didn't think it was possible for her to write something greater than that. Threshold is creepy and intense.
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Summary: How did I miss Kiernan until now?
Review: I thought I was "well-read" in horror, mystery, and sf, but somehow I've missed out on Caitlin R. Kiernan until I found Threshold. What an astounding writer! Now I have to catch up on everything else she's done.
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Summary: Good action and solid characterization mark this story
Review: Chance's grandfather has just died and she feels alone - but not lonely enough to invite into her life a strange girl who seems to know all about her. Her geologist grandfather's odd collection draws her into a world not only haunted in the past by an impossible monster, but facing the same horror in present time. Good action and solid characterization mark this story.
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Summary: good to have Kiernan back
Review: It had been so long since her first book (98) I was starting to be afraid that Caitlin Kiernan would be a one shot wonder. But THRESHOLD proves there's no danger of that. I just hope we won't have to wait another four years for her next novel. Kiernan is destined for greatness!
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Summary: This book is a pleasant surprise.
Review: Though it won awards and all the critrics loved it, I wasn't that impressed by Kiernan's first book - "Silk". I thought the plot was a little too slow in places and the characters annoyed me a lot of the time and I wanted more horror. I'm not saying SILK wasn't a good book, but I think it sort of got over-hyped for me. But "Threshold" is a far better book in my opinion. Caitlin Kiernan proves that she can scare the daylights out of us if she wants to and she seems to have mellowed some as a stylist, so the book moves along faster, which is important for me. "Silk's" not a bad book, but "Threshold" is a superb book and may be evidence that someday Kiernan will rival the likes of Peter Straub, Dean R. Koontz, and Stephen King!
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Summary: With visions of Dancy...
Review: What to say that hasn't been said by everyone else reviewing this novel? THRESHOLD will leave you haunted. Descriptions so vivid in sight and sound that you'll be pulled from wherever it is you may be, right into the heart of the story, which is more often than not quite a beautifully horrifying place to be. If you are unfamiliar with Kiernan's writing, now is definitely the time to start reading.
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Summary: yum
Review: Nothing more delicious than a book as creepy as this one. Creepy, creepy things in this here book. Things with claws and teeth and tendrils. Things that have lived in the dark places beneath mountains and between stars since the beginning of time. Buy this book for someone you love.
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Summary: Read it with the lights on!
Review: This is the scariest book I've read in a long time (and I read lots of scary books). Caitlin Kiernan is in a class with Clive Barker and Dean Koontz. The writer has an amazing talent to put you into her world and the minds of the characters and make you see exactly what she wants you to see!
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Summary: Terrifically Terrifying
Review: One of the things that I really can't get enough of from Caitlin Kiernan's writing is her talent for creating fascinating and endearing, off-beat characters. She does it again in THRESHOLD: an insane albino girl, an alcoholic clairvoyant, a deathrocker chick, and a paleontologist on the skids. Who could possibly resist a gallery like that! And she gives us some of the creepiest critters to stalk and slither across the pages of a horror novel since Ramsey Cambell and H. P. Lovecraft. Part Southern Gothic, part Lovecraftian tale of cosmic menance, this novel is an absolute must!!!!
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Summary: Something wonderful
Review: As a longtime resident of Birmingham, AL, the setting of Caitlin Kiernan's new novel, I was delighted to visit, though her text, many places so familiar too me. Kiernan has a knack for taking the familiar (a park, a book, a street) and casting it in a new and sinister light. Fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Ramsey Campbell, and Clive Barker should give the book a try. Those of us who have been following her work since she first appeared in the early '90s are already familiar with her breathtaking prose and deft characterization, her plots that flow like poisonous honey, but Threshold is a marvelous opportunity for new readers to discover Kiernan's powerful, terrifying writing. This book is truly something wonderful.
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