sofipitch's review
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This book would make an excellent thriller horror movie. It defies expectations set up by the genre. The synopsis and begining makes it sound a LOT like Salem's Lot which was so boring I couldn't finish. But that was quickly not the case. A lot if the characters actually talk and share info with each other as they discover it AND believe one another, rare for horror. Also the book's last 200+ pages are "the final battle" which some books often hype up the finale battle or the threat so much that when you get there it feels like nothing (cough cough The Conjuring) but this book packs a punch. It reminds me a lot of Train to Busan in how action packed it is (and the vampires act a lot like zombies tbh) but also how you get attached to a lot of characters and so their deaths are pretty painful. While this book is not like the most literary and definetly "an action book" it inverts a lot of expectations and stereotypes found in the bestseller types. It has a really powerful theme of community and love imbedded in it too. I will be reading more by Massey
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, and Violence
migrex's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
locdbooktician's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
5.0
This was my first book by Brandon Massey and I throughly enjoyed this book. Massey has a way of fading to black and setting up a scene that fills you with the emotion that he is intending for you to feel. This story follows a young man who move to a town that is quiet different. I am writing different because I donโt want to spoil too much of the book.
David was raised by his mother and did not know his father. Due to this disconnect, David moves from this small town to Dark corner in order to better understand his father. His father is well known and is also well known in this town. David finds out that his family has more secrets than he cared to know. David falls in love with this woman name Nia who has a past that is haunting her. Through trails and tribulations David goes on this quest on helping this town while also helping himself.
If you are interested in watching my interview with Brandon Massey, click the link below.
https://youtu.be/7srFTERZz3k
David was raised by his mother and did not know his father. Due to this disconnect, David moves from this small town to Dark corner in order to better understand his father. His father is well known and is also well known in this town. David finds out that his family has more secrets than he cared to know. David falls in love with this woman name Nia who has a past that is haunting her. Through trails and tribulations David goes on this quest on helping this town while also helping himself.
If you are interested in watching my interview with Brandon Massey, click the link below.
https://youtu.be/7srFTERZz3k
covertocovergirl's review against another edition
1.0
DNF. Absolutely did not like this gentleman's writing style one bit. ... just not for me. ๐ณ๐ especially the scene near the start involving the main character's little girl.. just.. ugh!
mochagirl's review against another edition
2.0
Dark Corner is the alias to Mason's Corner, Mississippi because the town?s population is nearly 90% African American. It is the namesake of a cruel plantation owner and town founder, Edward Mason. Its residents are direct descendents of slaves from Mason?s plantation, Jubilee, where Edward Mason was murdered at the hands of his slaves during a revolt and is rumored to haunt the "big house" at Jubilee.
Richard Hunter, infamous novelist, anthropologist, and absentee father, disappeared in a mysterious boating accident; his body is never discovered and he is legally declared dead. His son, David, inherits both his father?s vast fortune and an overwhelming need to learn more about the father he never knew. He heads to Dark Corner his father's birthplace and location of the family home to begin his quest for discovery.
Kyle Coiraut, is a168-year-old vampire - a Frenchman of African lineage who has discovered that his father was a bloodthirsty African warrior enslaved and embittered by the American slave trade who was killed and entombed in Mason's Corner before Kyle's birth during a massacre. Kyle heads to Dark Corner, sets up house at Jubilee, and plans to resurrect his father.
David and Kyle are on similar missions to learn about fathers they never knew and their fates are ultimately married to this quest. As one can reasonably deduce, the conditions are set for fireworks to begin as both David and Kyle?s family histories unfold. Massey skillfully plays on the father-son relationships throughout the book as well as building a credible, suspenseful vampire novel. Although the story started slowly and our hero, David, was in reactive mode throughout most of the novel; it is an enjoyable horror/vampire saga that ties themes of responsibility, vengeance, good, and evil.
Richard Hunter, infamous novelist, anthropologist, and absentee father, disappeared in a mysterious boating accident; his body is never discovered and he is legally declared dead. His son, David, inherits both his father?s vast fortune and an overwhelming need to learn more about the father he never knew. He heads to Dark Corner his father's birthplace and location of the family home to begin his quest for discovery.
Kyle Coiraut, is a168-year-old vampire - a Frenchman of African lineage who has discovered that his father was a bloodthirsty African warrior enslaved and embittered by the American slave trade who was killed and entombed in Mason's Corner before Kyle's birth during a massacre. Kyle heads to Dark Corner, sets up house at Jubilee, and plans to resurrect his father.
David and Kyle are on similar missions to learn about fathers they never knew and their fates are ultimately married to this quest. As one can reasonably deduce, the conditions are set for fireworks to begin as both David and Kyle?s family histories unfold. Massey skillfully plays on the father-son relationships throughout the book as well as building a credible, suspenseful vampire novel. Although the story started slowly and our hero, David, was in reactive mode throughout most of the novel; it is an enjoyable horror/vampire saga that ties themes of responsibility, vengeance, good, and evil.
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