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Summary: It's Not a Dream
Review: "It's not a dream."
The newest novel from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is here. The mysterious Ferryman from Greek mythology crosses over into our modern day world to seek out Janine, the woman who was at death's door but refused to go to the netherworld.
However, The Ferryman will not take no for an answer. . . and Janine is in for the fright of her newly regained life.
I went into the book expecting more of it set in the other realm / Styx and was pleasantly surprised by the majority being set in our realm instead. That David's past was haunting him, in a literal sense. That the battle was personal for ALL of them - Janine, for her baby and her life and her love; David, with the sidekicks haunting him; Annette, due to Jill; etc. I liked that they were all a part of it, not just standing there. They weren't expendable and they weren't too chicken to stay.This book is about strength. Learn how to swim. Learn what life is. Learn how to love again.
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Summary: DON'T PAY THE FERRYMAN
Review: Chris DeBurgh's haunting recording "Don't Pay the Ferryman" always impressed me with its eerie atmosphere and impending doom. This is captured in Golden's novel THE FERRYMAN. Janine Hartschorn's near death experience opens the door to Charon, the ferryman who wants to take Janine back with him to wherever he dwells. He uses recently deceased people to help him out. Janine's former love David Bairstow and her best friend, Annette, become embroiled in the plot, along with a robut priest named Father Hugh Charles.
Golden keeps the atmosphere suspenseful and eerie, and has some frightening confrontations with the deceased and the living.
This is my first experience with the critically acclaimed Golden and it does whet my appetite for more of his goodies.
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Summary: DON'T PAY THE FERRYMAN
Review: Chris DeBurgh's haunting recording "Don't Pay the Ferryman" always impressed me with its eerie atmosphere and impending doom. This is captured in Golden's novel THE FERRYMAN. Janine Hartschorn's near death experience opens the door to Charon, the ferryman who wants to take Janine back with him to wherever he dwells. He uses recently deceased people to help him out. Janine's former love David Bairstow and her best friend, Annette, become embroiled in the plot, along with a robut priest named Father Hugh Charles.
Golden keeps the atmosphere suspenseful and eerie, and has some frightening confrontations with the deceased and the living.
This is my first experience with the critically acclaimed Golden and it does whet my appetite for more of his goodies.
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Summary: hmm.....
Review: Christopher Golden is a great writer, but this book is definately not one of his good ones. His 'A Body of Evidence series' is awesome, especially the first 3 books. [Might be somewhat of a SPOILER]
Janine Hartschorn has a near death experience whilst giving birth to her baby... sadly her baby dosen't make it. While the doctors were trying to bring her back to life... she was in some sort of creepy place between this world and the next in a river trying to get back home, but the river keeps pushing her forward. She meets the creepy ferryman, whom you find out later is named Charon. Charon holds out his hand so Janine can hand over the coins that were in her pocket. Janine doesn't give in, she throws the coins into the water and runs... ends up falling smack onto the ground... blacks out. She lives. Charon is a creature from Greek mythology... the creature from the River Styx, who rides on a canoe type boat bringing souls to the next world or whatever... Charon is intrigued with Janine... never before has any ever thrown the coins into the river. He falls in love with her... he wants her to be with him... he won't let anything or anyone get in the way... he disturbs her in her dreams... Janine isn't really the main character... there are 2 more. David Bairstow, was the man that Janine left behind so she could return to her ex. He still has deep feelings for her. David sees things... people... people that arn't suppose to be alive... their not transparent like the stereotypical ghost except for maybe one... So apparently Charon has negotiated with the dead to do his killings... somehow he brings back the souls from David's past... in the flesh. In return, the ghosts will return back to the living world permanently. --------------
some of the stuff in this book didn't really make much sense... was kind of bad... was very predictable... you will probably enjoy it if your into really horrible horror flicks.
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Summary: Not usual Christopher Golden
Review: I'm a big fan of Christopher Golden's work (namely Buffy stuff but his other stuff as well) so when I bought "Ferryman" I thought I couldn't go wrong because hey, it was a Christopher Golden novel. The first 100 or so pages were interesting and I found myself really liking the book but then it slowly went down hill, becoming somewhat boring and the characters (namely David and Janie) became so whiny and dramatic with their problems that I found myself not caring whether or not they lived or died. However, I liked the myth behind it (the Ferryman has always intrigued me) and, once again, it was a Chris Golden work so that was an important thing. But, if you want a really good, hard core horror novel read something Stephen King or another Golden book. But, hey, you don't have to take my word for it.
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Summary: Excellent atmosphere
Review: If you've read only Golden's Buffy books, you're missing something. Golden is an effective writer who can set atmosphere and leaves you with visions in your head. I read this book months ago and I can still see The Ferryman in the water, still hear water lapping against his boat, still see the reflection of his lantern...
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Summary: Coins for the Ferryman, but not Enough
Review: Janine Hartschorn suffers a near death experience as she loses her child during a horrible miscarriage. She's in mud, tangled vines are grabbing at her and there's a river that she instinctively knows she has to stay away from, but every path she takes brings her back to it and a feeling of dread. Something is coming for her. She sees a cloaked man in a boat, his hand is outstretched, reaching for her. She's got some coins in her pocket, she grabs for them, throws them and runs from the Ferryman. She glances back, sees him holding a baby, she falls, sinks into the mud, wakes in the hospital. She's come back. But the Ferryman isn't going to let her go so easily. He punches a hole into our world and stalks Janine, destroying her friends as he comes for her. She seeks help from a wise priest and David, the love of her life, but can they beat back the Ferryman. Golden is a master at characterization and it shows in this haunting, suspenseful novel. I just loved it. Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
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Summary: A fast-paced horror chiller
Review: Janine left her love for a man who abandoned her when she was pregnant: upon losing the baby, both men are suddenly back in her life - one with a supernatural accomplice who threatens everyone she knows. As she and her friends battle the supernatural ill-wisher Ferryman, more forces emerge from the nether worlds to threaten them all in this fast-paced horror chiller.
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Summary: believable and frightening horror novel
Review: Once they were lovers but Janine Hartschorn left David Bairstow because her ex-boyfriend and the love of her life wanted her back. When she became pregnant with Spencer's child, he dumped her. The baby died and Janine almost did as well but she was a fighter and refused to go into the boat of Charon the Ferryman. When David pays Janine a condolence call, the spark of passion and love reignites in both their hearts. They start going out together but they are both haunted by otherworldly manifestations. David is almost killed in a car accident and the driver of the car is a student who was killed more than a year ago. A stranger kills Spencer, who had been stalking Janine. THE FERRYMAN will not let anyone or anything to keep him from obtaining what he wants: Janine. Once in a very long while, a horror novel will come along that is so believable and frightening that it will live on in the reader's mind forevermore. THE STAND and THE EXORCIST were such books and so too is THE FERRYMAN. Christopher Golden is a talented writer who makes the audience give credence to events in his novel as if they occurred in the real world. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A Very Different Kind of Ghost Story
Review: The spooky cover of this book made me pick it up. Page one hooked me. The Ferryman is a very different kind of ghost story in that the main characters' nemesis is Charon, Greek god of the Underworld.
Janine Hartschorn experiences a nightmare, where she is standing next to a river in a hellish place. A lone figure beckons to her from his boat in the river. She realizes that she has three silver coins in her hand and that they are her fare towards death. Terrified, she flings them into the river and tries to run. But the mud sucks at her.
What she thought was a nasty dream turns into an all-out harrowing fight for survival. Janine is not alone, though. Her former lover, David Bairstow, and their mutual friend, Annette also find themselves entangled as the ghosts of David's past spring to life as Charon's minions, bent on killing them so he can claim Janine.
The Ferryman is a fast-paced story that kept me reading. If I had to describe it, I would say that it is a blend of Peter Straub's "Ghost Story", William Blatty's "The Exorcist", and Golden's own weird surrealism. The ending was well done. Very cinematic, as one reviewer put it. Recommended.
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