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Darlington Woods (2010)

by Mike Dellosso(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1599799189 (ISBN13: 9781599799186)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Realms

review 1: Rob Shields lost his wife and son. Battling denial, an irrational fear of the and depression. After he has an eerie dream he convinces himself that the answer to his son's disappearance is in Darlinton, a town not found on any map. After teaming up with Juli a quirky waitress he meets when he goes to look at a house left to him by a great aunt. He has never been there to his knowledge. But the house seems familair. Juli says she knows where Darlington is but what she doesn,t tell him is that once in the woods surrounding the town where, once in there seems no way out. This is the first book i have read by author Mike Dellosso, It,s a taut spine- tingling suspense story. W ith a spiritual message . Now i want to read his other books the Hunted and Sc... moreream.
review 2: Darlington Woods by Mike Dellosso is another arrow in the author's growing quiver of stellar horror fiction. Rob Shields is still trying to recover from the brutal murders of his wife Kelley and son Jimmy when he is called to a small town in Maryland to claim a house left to him by a great-aunt he never met. Once there, the images and instinct that Jimmy is still alive become so real that he must follow them wherever they lead, even to the forgotten town of Darlington. So tiny it doesn't even exist on maps, and the locals refuse to give him directions until a young waitress named Juli steps up and agrees to help him find the town, because she knows that this is her calling. Dellosso is second to none in his descriptions of scary beasts as well as creating a slowly tightening noose of suspense around the reader. I wish that this book had about 100 more pages. There were some aspects of the plot that seemed rushed. When Rob admits to a phobia about the dark, it was a stunning admission because there is no previous foreshadowing of this major plot point. However, in describing how people are changed by fear and how it can rule a life, the story excels. Darlington Woods is definitely a pulse-pounding thriller, it just needed more development of the backstory. less

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