Books by Dave Zeltserman
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review 1: Monster is a retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The writing is good, but I didn't enjoy the story as much as I thought I would. I have never read the classic or watched the movie. So, I thought this would be a great introduction to the story. This retelling is told from th...
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review 1: This book was horrible. It read like an over extemporized script of a bad movie with a plot twist that was predictable and boring. It took me two weeks to get through this tedious excuse for a novel and I actually stopped caring about what was going to happen next around chapter ...
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review 1: Id agree with the review that this shouldnt necessarily be marketed as a "horror" story; I kept expecting more jump-out-of-your-seat frights. That being said, I still enjoyed the book while at the same time feeling so incredibly sad for the main character. The ending was a bit an...
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review 1: Years ago I read all the Rex Stout novels about Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. I really enjoyed them. This was 2 short stories published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2009. Good old-fashioned detective stories with lots of similarities to the Nero Wolfe novels; these take p...
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review 1: A possibly unreliable narrator, a rural town, an ancient pact, a terrible secret. In concept, "The Caretaker of Lorne Field" is "Frailty" meets "The Ruins" (with a hint of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” thrown in for good measure). The story centers on Jack Durkin, a man who qu...
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review 1: Hmm so really didn't know what to expect with this one, and for starters its not classified correctly as this should definitely be a Young Adult selection not scattered in Adult Non-Fiction where a reader like me would pick it up and assume its for the mature, okay so there is no...