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Velvet Rain (2012)

by David C. Cassidy(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1477529136 (ISBN13: 9781477529133)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

review 1: From the opening line, to the final sentence, David C. Cassidy kept me turning the pages of this beautifully written novel.Kain Richards was born with a special gift. A gift a sadistic scientist, Brikker, in a secret government program will do anything to use to his advantage. Anything. This requires Kain to live the life of a drifter until he meets a separated woman, Lynn, and her teenage children in Iowa. Living in Lynn’s guest house and working for her farmer father, he becomes attached to the family and harbors ideas of rooting himself there. Lurking in the back of his mind is the fear of Brikker finding him, and what he’ll do to this family if it’s discovered he lived with them.Lynn’s estranged husband, Ray, an evil man, adds an interesting complication to the... more story that takes place in the late fifties. Throughout the story I expected Ray and Kain to have a life or death altercation, or Ray to turn Kain into Brikker. I was partially right.Mr. Cassidy’s writing is vivid and polished. He puts you deep into the point of view characters head letting you know their every thought. There are times when this reviewer thought this slowed down. But that is about the only negative thing I can say about this book. I became emotionally attached to Kain and Lynn’s family, and wanted to kill Brikker and Ray myself. Set aside some time to read the last seventy-five pages as the action that intense.Dean Koontz and Stephen King should be worried about this gifted writer taking away from their books sales. I anxiously await his next book.
review 2: Kain Richards is a drifter; he is also what we might call a mutant. He has an unusual ability which in the opening chapters, for reasons not explained, he uses for petty thievery. But of course mutants have been hunted down and, in his case, tortured with a brutality that is beyond comprehension. Even when others of his type have been introduced and their miserable ends described--in leisurely, almost obscene detail--I cannot say I understand the evil. Other novels have introduced to us the notion that real evil exists in this world; but the evil of the mutant hunter in Velvet Rain is beyond comprehension. One can understand that he wishes to possess the power of the mutant, to understand how it works and to improve on it to his own ends. But, beyond that, I confess that my imagination fails me. In between the grungy beginning and the third part, the end (introduced modestly as "Hell on Earth") there is a very long adagio of "normal" life in farm country with teens playing baseball and losing, one of them at least, his virginity with the town's whore. These are extremely leisurely scenes, even when there are moments of foreboding as when the animals sense the strangeness of the drifter (they do not like what they sense but we do not learn why) and the discovery of horrific domestic abuse of the kind served up by recent TV depictions of criminal behavior.The author has an undeniable power of imagination; even his vision of evil and cruelty might be acceptable as a form of literary license. But, for this reviewer, writing so burdened needs to be at a trot if not a canter. less

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