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Summary: Oh What Is The Land Of Dreams...
Review: When a psychic tracks down a serial killer and saves a victim most would call it a job well done. But for Deacon Silvey it turns into a nightmare. Asked to do a favor for the Birmingham police, Deacon becomes the target of a dark hunt, facing both the revenge of the old ones and the hopes of another killer to fulfill a dream of ascension. Had he been the only target, Deacon might have been able to stand firm, but the demon with yellow eyes has a ritual to perform - on those that Deacon loves.Deacon is an ex-alcoholic, trying to start a new life with Chance, his very pregnant young wife. When he seeks help with the dark visions that have begun to plague him, death follows his trail. Chance is a practical woman and a scientist - a paleontologist. She barely believes in her husbands powers and now finds she is having visions of her own. She is torn between her own bloody nightmares and her fears that Deacon will succumb to his own demons. A deep wedge is being driven between them and only catastrophe can follow. My first encounter with Caitlen Kiernan was Silk, her freshman novel. While chilling and interesting in its own right, Silk pales beside Low Red Moon, Kiernan's third. The events of this novel would be terrifying on their own, but Kiernan has learned to blend subconscious fears and a modern mythology with echoes of Lovecraft into a concoction as suspenseful and doom-filled as anything I've read in years. Dream and reality crisscross in splashes of blood, characters refuse to follow any stereotype, and the Southern gothic horror story gets an infusion of new ideas. Kiernan displays a command of language that transcends her chosen genre. The reader, of course, is the beneficiary, nose buried in a book that is both too chilling to read and impossible to put down. If this is your introduction to Kiernan, brace yourself, you will soon be hunting up everything she has written.
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Summary: Writing that takes you so far beyond the edge . . .
Review: Wow! Startling, fascinating, scary are just a few words and they don't begin to do justice to the Kiernan's writing in LOW RED MOON. This book was so good I couldn't put it down, cliche I know. I'm the kind of person who has four or five books going at once, it really takes a fabulous book to pull my attention away from all the others. I picked up LOW RED MOON and I was addicted, hooked. The pacing is perfect; heart-racing and down-to-the-wire speed.
Chance and Deacon, after a rocky beginning to their marriage are having a baby. Chance has trouble understanding Deacon, since he's clairvoyant, she doesn't believe in the supernatural. In his past Deke has used alcohol to block out the headaches and ghastly visions. He's sober now, but that makes what is about to happen even harder to take. Deke used to help the police solve murders and kidnappings. Once he found a missing child. This act made him a hero to some, and a villan to others and brought him to the attention of Narcissa Snow. Narcissa is a werewolf who has lived her life longing to be something more terrible, greater. Now she takes it upon herself to quest for Deke's soul and his newborn to sacrifice, so she can be made greater.
Kiernan introduces us to the characters slowly, but by the end we understand them so well. The action is scary, but what is so terrible is that its seems to be floating just on the edge, not really gory not really glossing over it. It creeps into you slowly, and then suddenly you're turning on all the lights in the house in the middle of the day. You're remembering all the other horror novels you've read, they come back in Kiernan's vivid imagery and her glimpse of the things beyond her words.
Kiernan is a fantastic writer. And LOW RED MOON is one of those reads that you just can't put down. You have to know what happens to the characters. You're reading along and suddenly you realize that this world is all around you, you've been carried along way over the edge of your seat and into this nightmare.
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