Prey

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Summary: Brown Jenkin and Lovecraft - awesome book!
Review: This is the best book written by Graham Masterton. A true homage to Lovecraft and his Brown Jenkin. Scary, gory, dark, sinister with characters that one cares about. What a great book, so well written. Once you start, you won't be able to place it down, t is that good.

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Summary: Great Book! Bizarre!
Review: This was my first Graham Masterton novel and wont be my last! I have read this book a year ago and it still lingers in the mind! It was so original and took me by surprise with all of its twists and shocks. I enjoyed the characters and I was frightened by the bad ones. While reading this book you feel relieved to know that this is only fiction. Kind of like a nightmare you wake up from and are so happy being back in reality! I highly recommend this book to horror fans!

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Summary: very enjoyable
Review: this wasn't very inventive. i recognized so much from other places. and the dialogue was at times poor. the evil characters was not that credible. but i still liked it. the details were carried out nicely. the main characters all the time finding or doing something interesting. very little of the usual irrelevant stuff, like to much focus on career and home life. and most of all: this was very suspenceful and very enjoyable. it starts with and keeps on being interesting. thsi book was packed with interesting amusing stuff. M knows he's not inventive, so he's not messing up trying to add "interesting" details destroying the story. he delivers suspence in big packages. so i forgive him his flaws. basically this is a story about a haunting that is really serious. something or someone is in the attic. something is going on in the village. as the main character investigates, he finds a lot of interesting stuff about the house (having a history) and the village (especially about a family of old, a mysterious character, and disappearences). i won't go any further into the plot, as it is very enjoyable read finding out.

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Summary: Should characters have brains?
Review: When I first started to read this book, I recognized right away a lot of potential in the story. All of the scary elements that I was hoping for were there, and the pace drew me in immediately. But as the book went on I became annoyed at first, and gradually frustrated with the character's complete lack of brains.

As bad things start to go down, the characters seem to want to do everything except for the obvious - leave. There is nothing that really forces anyone in this story to stay where they are at, and as the death toll mounts and creepy goings on get more sinister, it never seems to cross any ones mind that the simplest solution would be to find a nicer neighborhood. It is like there is a Masterton IQ Reduction Chip (tm) lodged inside each character's head!

And as silly as that sounds, had the author used a gimmick like this to explain the stupidity of his characters, I probably could have enjoyed the narrative enough to have given it 3.5-4 stars instead of 1.