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Asylum Lake (2010)

by R.A. Evans(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1936243105 (ISBN13: 9781936243105)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Chapbook Press

review 1: I only got 34% of the way through this book when I decided I couldn't take it anymore. It is filled with typos. Absolutely ridiculous. There is no excuse for publishing a book with that many errors. A simple spelling and grammar check in Word would have taken care of a lot of them. If the story had been compelling, I may have been able to look past the mistakes, but it was not that interesting to me. Nothing scary at all, and I didn't care for the detailed description of the horrific crime. I thought it would be more ghosty kind of creepy, not pure gore.
review 2: Any book with an asylum in it should theoretically have a build in creepy factor. Not necessarily the case here. This book had a lot of potential, angry ghosts, possession, dark secrets, murder, madne... moress...it just sort of wasn't horror capable enough of handling all of those things. This book was very much horror lite, targeted for more mainstream (Dean Koontz like, but much better than Koontz, none of his narrow minded political propaganda on every page) audience. So for anyone who likes their story slightly spooky and lightly supernatural, this would certainly do the trick. To me it lacked a certain edge and the ending was a real let down. Kind of abrupt, fairly unresolved with much too many unanswered questions, very open ended, sequel ready, but in a way that this is definitely a part one of and not a self contained book. The writing was pretty decent, serviceable read with a disappointing ending. Oh well, at least it wasn't a long one. less

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