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A carregar... The Perils and Dangers of This Night (2008)por Stephen Gregory
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A HAUNTING STORY OF VENGEANCE AND RETRIBUTION A bleak mid-winter. An icy wind blows through the corridors of Foxwood Manor, a boys' prep-school deep in the woodlands of Dorset. The boys have gone home at the end of the Christmas term and the old house is left to the headmaster, Dr Kemp, his wife, and Alan Scott, a boy abandoned by his mother.As the snow falls heavily on the house and the surrounding woods, a story of revenge and retribution unfolds- a web of half-truths and innuendoes woven into a bizarre game of hide-and-seek through the corridors and dormitories of the school.The Perils and Dangers of this Night is a compelling story of unfolding horror as a small boy undergoes a rite of passage, seeking redemption from his haunted past. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Ohhh, I so wanted to like this book. It had a small cast, one location and a claustrophobic atmosphere, all of which should have made this a winner for me. But although I did finish it, it left me cold. I didn’t like any of the characters, not even really the young boy Alan. The book never makes it clear if Martin’s motivation for his actions was genuine or not – was he telling the truth or making things up? Did he even believe what he himself was saying? This is never resolved (possibly deliberately) and the thread is left hanging. There was a supernatural element which didn’t really work for me either, and I could have done without the completely unnecessary side angle of the bird in the barn.
It’s not often a book makes me feel like this, but it left me feeling on a downer and I was very relieved to finish it and move on. It wasn’t that the writing was bad – it wasn’t – and I have to agree that the setting of Foxwood Manor was suitably creepy for a creepy thriller, but unfortunately I did not enjoy this at all, and only finished it because once I start a book I can never let myself not read the whole thing. ( )