Face

Rating:
Summary: Ehhhhh
Review: To go with the saying never judge a book by it's cover that's what I did with this, I saw the creepy cover and read the back of the plot and immidiately said to myself "I have to get this! It looks so good!". Well I was half right, first off it took me a long time to read this book, probably about 4 months. I am a fast reader, that is if I'm interested in the book. I can't say that for this. Face starts off well, I liked the concept of a lone hitch hiker on the road in the middle of the blizzard creepy. He's going to make this family's life hell. So like I said, the first half is good, as soon as I reached the middle I started losing interest. I didn't care about Dan or Megan, I thought they were both quite stupid actually. I was interested in the Brand/Nikki storyline however, she becomes obsessed with Brand, and he plays on her emotions. She wants to have sex with him, Brand is basically playing her like a damn fiddle. I am disturbed by Lebbon's fascination with Nikki's lower regions. He makes several suggestions and continiously, yes I spelled that wrong, puts her in explicit sexual situations. Especially the conclusion, she is raped a lot. It's obvious Lebbon has talent but his writing becomes repititive and boring. I actually skipped quite a few pages because a lot of what he put in was unecessary rubbish. And I don't like that Brand was never explained, what the hell was he? Human? Demon? Corporeal spirit of some kind? Lebbon never says, I did have a fondness of Brand, but there's no reason as to why he's torturing the family and how he's doing these things. In the end, Face is a decent read, I hate the ending though, it was so out of place and forced. But whatever, I'd reccomend getting this at a library or something, not worth the price.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting
Review: Weird book, I can tell by it that Tim Lebbon doesn't like cats too much.