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Summary: Walking Away Dissapointed
Review: I had great hopes for this book, although i knew the dead would start "walking" i realized that they were not the Romero Zombies, or the Living dead of the zombie genre of today. Still i thought the idea of Dead people just pacing around doing nothing was still very creepy. The plot started out strong, the story within the story was pretty good, but when it came down to it the great evil running the show was pretty cheesy and quite frankly the way they deal with it was anticlimatic and elementary. I was more afraid of grandpa walking at the bottom of the lake then what made grandpa start walking in the first place.
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Summary: Terrific villian, terrific read
Review: This book is a terrific read. What stops it from being a classic is an ending that just doesn't quite satisfy. It's not horrible, just not as good the first 300 pages. I would give this novel 4.5 stars but we can't on here, so I'm rounding it up to 5 stars.
What is best about this book is a villian named Isabella, a parasitic witch that is the best evil villian I've read since Lestat. Unfortunatley, we don't get to learn enough about her past to make this book 100% satisfying. I wanted to learn everything about her, where she came from and why it was possible for them to defeat her the way they did. Obviously, small charms, mints and jars won't be able to defeat an evil parasitic witch of this magnitude unless we know what they symbolize. And what did she do to piss off a dwarf?
Hint to Mr. Little. Devote an entire book to Isabella.
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Summary: These boots are made for walking
Review: Horrible deaths await the characters in this book--undeserved deaths, for the most part--but I was able to read "The Walking" through the night without turning on extra lights or calling extra cats into the bedroom for company. Horror is the 'oh yuk, how can these hideous events be happening' reaction. Terror is knowing that in the darkness, if you reach for the light switch, something will realize exactly where you are.That said, this novel is hard to put down. It has likeable, interesting characters and an evil vampyr named Isabella, who has understandable motives for murder. Bentley Little's finest descriptions are reserved for her vengeful killings. The story jolts forward with death after gruesome death, but the reader finally catches on to the reason for the murders and the walking zombies, without too much prodding from Bentley Little. It's always a pleasure to deduce whodunit and why without a flat-out, often tedious explanation from the author. This novel's main protagonist, a nice-guy private detective named Miles Huerdeen is asked to investigate the mysterious stalking of an old man. Another one of his cases ends abruptly when his client is torn in half, lengthwise. Old men are dying horrible deaths all around him. Then his own father dies, walks out of the morgue and disappears. Several hellish visions and deaths later, Miles realizes that a monster is waiting for him in the depths of Wolf Canyon, where a village of witches had been deliberately drowned by a government hydroelectric dam. "The Walking" isn't the scariest or most gruesome horror novel I've ever read--go to Stephen King for those superlatives--but it is clever, non-stop reading.
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