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Hemmersmoor (2011)

by Stefan Kiesbye(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3608502084 (ISBN13: 9783608502084)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Klett-Cotta

review 1: This...is interesting. Well worth a read. Just know that the characters are all absolutely bat shit crazy fucked up. Not in an over-the-top, howling at the moon, Napoleonic kind of way, but in a Dave Foley needing to get his axe sharpened kind of way. His suit is covered in blood and it's dripping from his axe, but the dude sharpening his axe doesn't notice. The characters are at once the axe sharpener oblivious to the horror standing in front of him and Dave Foley nonchalantly discussing the difficulty of holding down a screaming woman so he can cut off her head. This dichotomy is what makes this book so disturbing. That's the way it is in Hemmersmoor.Update: I vacillated between three and four stars as I wrote this. I liked it but didn't love it but the stories linger on... more my mind. Because of that, I give it 4.
review 2: By turns bizarre, macabre, and disturbing, I cannot rate this book higher than three stars because the author clearly never met a passive sentence he did not love. I understand passive voice is more common in German (the author's native country), but to someone who reads and writes voraciously, I found it distracting and detrimental to the prose. On the other hand, a casual reader may better be able to look beyond this blemish and into the dark heart of the story...there are shivers to be found here. less

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