Night Beasts

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Summary: From a sci-fi fans perspective
Review: The author brings you on a heart throbbing journey riding a wave of terror for the night beasts are insatiable and tireless in their conquest. He introduces you to the most lovable, loyal, fearless four legged companion since Lassie. You find yourself marveling at the courage of this little Bulldog named Brownie.
From the opening sequence at the motel to the end in the van you are pushed and pulled from one emotion to the next. You feel the characters fear, pain, love and joy. You applaud them as they develop strategies in their life threatening battle with the beasts.
I enjoyed this book and look forward to many more from T.W. Stetson. I give this book a 4 star rating

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Summary: Night Beasts starts well, but stalls quickly.
Review: The title of this books should have been Warbeasts since that is the name of the menacing monsters in this fairly pedestrian end of the world thriller.

The story starts with a satellite containing Warbeast eggs crashing to earth and unleashing an endless cloud of death. Many die, few survive. Author T. W. Stetson keeps things moving more or less, but is guilty of a writing crime. Spelling out sound effects. Every other paragraph the reader is treated to Blam! or Bang! or Scraaatch! and the dreaded Warbeast Hssss! It grows tiresome after awhile and sinks the novel down to the level of a comic book (which can be a good thing at times, but this isn't one of those times). Also whole pages are spent introducing complex character relations only to have those same characters killed (it's like a James Herbert Rat novel gone wrong). The book is fun, but not at all frightening and the non stop action grows tiresome, the urge to skim over all the needless exposition to get to the end stronger with each passing chapter. Not recommended to any but the most die hard of monster fans.

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Summary: weird book!
Review: This is a one-of-a-kind novel. For the substance/story I give it 5 stars. For style, 1 star. WHY? The author "exclaims" sounds. For example, "The beast hissed. Hisss. He shot it. BAMM. It hissed again. HSSSS. Hisss."
My wife thought it was a cartoon style, while I thought the author must be a children's book author who forgot to drop these conventions. The editor should have cut all of them. But if you can get through that, it is a terrific thriller. Unique, and unforgettable beasts.

Pegleg