Rating: 
Summary: What a waste of time.
Review: This is my first (and last) experience with Bentley Little's work and to say I was disappointed would be far too kind. The plot, such as it is, deals with a race of creatures that return from the past and start reverting people to a more primitive state. Why is not entirely clear and I just didn't care enough to figure it out. The characters are so interchangeable that you can't tell one from another and the big finish happens so quickly that there is no attempt to build suspense. Not frightening, very predictable and lacking in the basic elements of a good horror novel, THE RETURN definitely does not make me want to check out the rest of this author's work.
Rating:
Summary: where suspension of disbelief is unbelievable...
Review: This is the first novel I have read by Bentley Little, and it was a disaster. First, the author must have had a morphine drip in his arm while constructing such a long list of uni-dimensional characters who find themselves caught in a struggle with a "monster" unleashed after they unearthed some Native American artifacts. There are dancing pottery shards featuring technicolor images of characters that view them, and, of course, there's that green-haired "Mongollon Monster" who is just thrown into the mix like cayenne pepper into a ham and cheese omelet. PLEASE!!!!!!! If you like monsters prowling around old ruins, then try Owl Goingback's "Crota."
Rating: 
Summary: Very Scary!
Review: This is the scariest novel I have read in ages. Bentley Little takes a hoary old cliche like the haunted indian burial grounds and breathes new life into it by turning the concept on its head and throwing in a host of imaginative horrors. Quite a few people seem to have had trouble understanding the nature of the evil in this novel, but I don't understand why. Mr. Little certainly doesn't spoonfeed his readers, but everything's there if one takes the time to read carefully. This is one great book.
Rating:
Summary: 'Boo..' are you scared now? yes? then read this book!
Review: This starts as a great book but fall flat after couple of pages. There are too many loose threads and very confusing book. Now a days writing confusing horror book is a fashion or what? I will tell you, if you HAVE to read this book, keep store receipt handy to return this book. Most of the matirial in this book is laughable! LOL. If someone says 'boo' to you in day light, in front of 1000 people,telling you that he is going to tell you 'boo' and if you get scared after that,then you will love this book.
Rating: 
Summary: Not Impressed
Review: This was the first book I've read by Bentley Little. I purchased it because it sounded interesting. I had to force myself to actually finish it...sorry. This book did not make me want to rush out and purchase another of his works. The story was just ridiculous to me and at times I was disgusted by things put in this book. This is just my opinion however, others may enjoy it.
Rating: 
Summary: I've grown to expect more from Bentley Little
Review: Unlike some of the other reviewers here, I AM an avowed Bentley Little fan. The Ignored is among my alltime favorite books._But I'm a realistic one, too. I know that they can't all be winners. And this isn't one. Yes, some of the incidents are ridiculous. Pestles (or is that mortars?) that walk aren't known to strike fear into the hearts of readers. And they don't this time. And what was with the mummies? Either they were supposed to be alive and evil, or they weren't? I couldn't really tell what was up with them. They mostly just laid there. And the ending? Among the worst I've ever read. This is a drawback in many, many horror novels, and Little has had trouble finishing his novels in the past. But this one was SO anticlimatic. It just fizzled out when it should have been apocalyptic. The demon, or whatever it was, just stood there and took it's medicine. It definitely ended not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Rating: 
Summary: Chilling and scary....
Review: When the urban legend of the Mogollon Monster becomes a possible reality only a few people take notice, but when Indian artifacts begin moving by themselves and townsfolk begin finding shards of ancient pottery with their own likeness and homes on it, it comes to the attention of archeologists and Arizona, New Mexico residents that something beyond strange is happening.
The basis of Bentley Little's The Return is chilling in its entirety and starts out a page turning thriller from the onset.
The theory of what happened to the Anasazi is a refreshing gem and the angle that we as a race are only one step from predatory beasts is believable. I enjoyed the book immensely although towards the end it became a bit redundant and the big build up to the finale left me waiting for a big ending that fell somewhat flat in its conclusion.
| 
