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Descending Son (2014)

by Scott Shepherd(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1477808736 (ISBN13: 9781477808733)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

47North

review 1: As selected, it was ok. *** SPOILER ALERT ***Started out good as a mystery, then vampires got thrown in the mix.There were just some odd things that didn't seem right or weren't consistent. Such as when two vampires decide not to kill the hero, which would have (1) solved the problem, and (2) been much easier (especially since they feed on humans anyway), but instead they throw him into the trunk of a car, drive into the desert, and bury him alive. Really?One thing that really got me was the fact that after Jesse, our hero, finds out about vampires and his ex-girlfriend winds up becoming a vampire, she touches his hand and he shies away because of how cold her hand is, since she is after all dead. But earlier in the book when he shook hands with a vampire, there was n... moreo mention of how COLD his hand was and no one else was affected by or startled by how cold his hands were. At the end his sister doesn't react at all when taking THE vampire by the hand, yet that one time -- oh, your hand is really cold.Also, it took days, or guess I should say nights, to change people into vampires and yet only one night to change Tracy, the ex-girlfriend, into a vampire.
review 2: I received this book as part of a Goodreads Giveaway.This was a fresh take on a rather overdone supernatural creature. The closest thing to a downfall, that I found, was that it took approximately 149 pages before it got to anything of interest or supernatural. The first 149 pages seemed to be paving the way for everything to come & filling us in on the main characters back-story. Still, despite the slow start, it was a fast read. The author has a way with writing that makes the pages fly by faster then you would think they should for such a big book. I think Mr. Shepherd's history as a writer / producer for television is very easily seen in his style of writing. The story almost reads like a TV show. The first 150 pages could actually be episode one if it were turned into a show, lol. The division of chapters was also nicely done. It showed the story from every angle possible & even though the entire book wasn't written in diary form, like Bram Stoker did in his story, there were a few of those tossed in near the end of the book for good measure & to fill in any gaps in the storytelling.As someone who has lived in Southern California a good part of my life, I have to applaud Scott Shepherd on his description of the area he chose to write about. He describes the area in a way that only someone intimately familiar with area could describe it. He described things in such detail that it brought back vivid memories &, for those of you who have never been there, he does such a great job of detailing the world in which he writes that anyone can understand what LA & Palm Springs is like even if they've never been to California before. Still, the best part of the story has to be the direction the supernatural part of the story takes us, Mexico. The mythology for the Mexican version of this rather well known supernatural creature was a refreshing approach, leaving room for a few good plot twists.Once the story got going I couldn't put it down & while I don't believe there will be a second part to this story I had so much fun reading Mr. Shepherd's story that I would be glad to read anything else he writes in the future. less

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