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Summary: Kept me awake at night -- extremely intense - read it now!
Review: 'Strangewood' is a winner from any and all angles. The book keeps you on the edge of your seat (as well as scared to fall asleep). It flows throughout its entirety with well-developed characters, deeply moving, highly realistic relationships, and a phenomenal, utterly believable description of otherworld known as 'Strangewood'I haven't read a book in many, many years that has mesmerized me into turning pages the way 'Strangewood' has. I can't wait for the SEQUEL! Eileen Counihan
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Summary: Run, don't walk, to get this book!
Review: An incredible book, one which will stay with you for a long time after you put it down! Strangewood has one of the most imaginative premises ever conceived of in any genre, but particularly in the horror-fantasy arena where so many new books are just hackneyed rewrites of old novels. Christopher Golden has an amazing gift for creating not only a roller-coaster ride of a plot, but characters to whom you are instantly drawn and about whom you care from word one. The climax of the book will leave you drop-jawed with disbelief. I can't wait for Mr. Golden's next book to come out!
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Summary: Wonderfully twisted, but wanted more
Review: Awesome piece of fiction, but its a little sketchy in parts, however some very memorable characters! Pick this one up. It really should have been hardcover..I look for more from Mr. Golden, maybe he, Rollins, and the writer of "Descent"and Laymon can revive the soft horror market of the past 10 years!
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Summary: Imaginative, Creative and Intense
Review: Chris Golden has created an unbelievably creative and imaginative universe. I was astounded by the detail and complexity of the story, and I was in awe of the many turns the story took. This is a definite must-read.
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Summary: Strange Chris
Review: Christopher Golden is an odd one. I don't think there's an author out there with better premises for books than he but when you get into the heart of the story you find that he's done nothing creative with it. If throwing one odd thing after another at you is creativity, sign me up. Strangewood could have been such an awesome book but instead it's a mess. The story's potential for excellence declines the further you trod into it. The characters are shallow cliches and the conclusion is predictable. All of the books I've read by Golden are the same. Great ideas written badly. I want to give him another chance. I think he has potential but...I just don't know if I can waste my time and money on this author anymore.
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Summary: Dark Fantasy rarely gets this good
Review: Christopher Golden's Strangewood is a book that stays with you. At times lyrical, funny, tragic, thrilling, the novel touches the reader on a number of levels. The characters are well-drawn and I'm especially happy with what has to be one of the best written descriptions of a divorced couple that I have ever read. My only real complaint is that I really wish the book had been longer. At times the jumps between scenes happen so rapid-fire I couldn't help but think how much more time I wanted to spend with these characters. Overall, though, a really wonderful book.
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Summary: The best novel I've ever read!
Review: Golden has surpassed himself with "Strangewood". It is an all-too-realistic tale of human drama, perfectly mixed with a fantasy plot that speaks of incredible yet conceivable imagination. It has the most innovative plot that I've ever read, beautifully, naturally and flowingly written by a great author. If you've read "The Shadow Saga", and thought that was good, you'd fall to your knees before Golden when you read "Strangewood". The decision to focus more on character than on plot was a great one. With "The Shadow Saga", you're intrigued by the way of life of the shadows, but you never can put yourself in their shoes. Here, you find yourself feeling for the Randalls, and even the Strangewood characters, sympathising them, empathising with them, knowing how they feel... Golden has outdone himself this time, and I eagerly await his next novel, "Straight On Til Morning", especially since it is to be written in the same style that "Strangewood" was written in.
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Summary: great stuff
Review: haunting, whimsical fun, with realistic characters - the interaction between Golden's characters was over half the fun...
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Summary: great story, extraordinary originality
Review: I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book quite so much, mainly because of the original nature of the story. It's just plain fun. Much like the author's vampire books-- Saints and Shadows etc-- excellent work. Nitpicking-- I could do without the distracting and irrelevant "love" story between the ex and the prof. Found it damned depressing actually , and it prevented me from caring much about the ex-wife character. Also, I thought there was a pretty big hole in the set-up: The protagonist knows that Strangewood is "real", used to "go" there as a boy, and then he somehow forgot about this? Even after he starts "hallucinating" he fails to recall that this stuff was real? How, exactly, does something like this slip your mind? Something's not quite right there, but nonetheless the book is great fun.
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Summary: This Book Rocks!
Review: I figure I'll just copy basically what I posted to Chris about his fabulous book (edited for nonsensicalness): OK, so I just finished reading Strangewood. Can I just say that it rocked? And so twisted and evil. Some books have compelling plots but marginal prose, and other books have wonderful prose but lackluster plots...but this book....so much the compelling plot that I walked around the house reading it as to not put it down. And prose that I need to go back and re-read now that I'm not racing through it to see what happens next. Many books disappoint me in their ending. Sometimes really great books don't have an ending that lives up to the earlier parts. But Strangewood's ending remains true to the rest of the book and not only did not disappoint, but exceeded expectations. I'm encouraging everyone I know to read this book.
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