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Soultaker (2009)

by Bryan Smith(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0843961937 (ISBN13: 9780843961935)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Leisure Books

review 1: The evil Lamia subverts many of the inhabitants of a small town by offering pleasures, perversions, power, and promises of eternity, but there is a price, and she is the Queen of lies. Several oppose her, including her own daughter, but can they stop an immortal being? Well written, with good characters, this was a fun read if you like gore and sex. However, I find it frustrating that almost all the characters cannot resist the intentions of evil. Would the same thing occur if an agent of good came to town. Perhaps people really are such patsies, and perhaps for the story line it is better as it was written, but I find myself annoyed that there aren't more characters who resist. Maybe this is just a weak willed sort of town.
review 2: A somewhat cynical horror ... moretale that wallows in sex and violence and belly flops into the shallow end of three stars. I don't mind sex and violence. In fact, the author writes some of the most tense sex and violence I've read in a long time. Yet at least one of the characters should be likable while they're wallowing in all that sex and violence. The story involves the appearance of a serpent-goddess named Lamia who plans to devour the souls of the entire teen population of a small backwater town. Why she just doesn't show up at a Justin Beiber concert is beyond me. Maybe Justin Beiber fans already had their souls devoured. It becomes the mission of a few misfits including a washed out alcoholic "supermarket" horror writer (What's your point, Bryan?)to try to save the town. The author knows how to tell a tale and kept my interest but I would have liked the story to elevate beyond the feel of a cheesy TV movie with the predictable and pat "gotcha" ending. less

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