Books by F.G. Cottam
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review 1: Finally got to check out F.G. Cottam with this book. Not the most overwhelming first impression to be honest, the story took a while to get into and the both the story and the characters failed to emotionally engage throughout (this is an entirely personal perspective), but to au...
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review 1: The description sounded intriguing and I was excited to start reading it. Sadly, the excitement didn't last as I could not even make it through the first l-o-n-g chapter. And I tried. I tried hard. I started the book three times, could not get into it, and finally gave up... So m...
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review 1: This one had a good premise but it just didn't connect with me. No man is that macho without being a complete ass. And no teen is that affected without being whiny. So right away I didn't believe the main characters, and if you don't believe in the saintly dad and son what is the...
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review 1: This came up as a suggestion when I bought Harwood's The Ghost Writer (no relation to the Polanski movie), and its main failing is the same: after many pages of wonderfully creepy atmosphere and absorbing nested tales, the ending goes right off the rails with a truncated, poorly-...
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review 1: This is my favorite of his horror novels thus far. The well developed characters loom large as he shifts narratives from the past to the present. Cottam is well versed in English literature and incorporates bits of history along with the arts and music from the time periods discu...
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review 1: I am somewhat ambivalent about this book. I really wanted to enjoy but it was very predictable. I also felt the pacing was off. It takes at least half the book before the family actually moves to Brodmaw Bay. After they arrive, everything seems to happen at warp speed. I could ha...
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review 1: This was basically a story about a haunted house. A place where something so evil happened it tainted the structure for years afterward. Visiting the house causes the evil to latch onto the visitor, who if was lucky enough to escape the house unscathed, couldn’t outrun the ghosts...
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review 1: To be honest, I was a little disappointed. The first quarter of the book is so plodding that I nearly gave up on it. To make matters worse, there are quite a lot of people, interactions, phenomena, and conversations in this section that are written as though the reader already kn...