ghostly1's review
4.0
Great ending to a wonderful series. I love these characters, the history that plays out. Atmospheric, haunting, thrilling.
dipt_in_folly's review
3.0
I keep saying I don't care for this series, but the fact that I read the entire 'Colony' series obviously means I'm lying to myself. The theme is great, and I found myself curious to see what life handed out for quite a few of the characters. What jarred me the most was the series' continuous pairing of romance/sexual tension with horror. The juxtaposition really threw me, but hey, I suppose that happens frequently in horror movies and those always seem to do well so why not? Ghosts, evil forces, and a bit of romance. If you're into all of that I'd say give the series a go. It's definitely fun!
madarauchiha's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
0.25
✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨
EDIT Hi. I'm from the future. Or past, however you wanna read this. So here's the thing, right? I kinda thought we left evil Black people / Magical N*gro shit back in the 1950s or whatever with TinTin Goes To The Congo and all the African stereotypes with the big red rubber circle mouths and chicken bones in their hair.
Yeah, sorry, medium spoilers but this book is that. All of the books are that. It never changes, there's no plot twist of oh, the slave ship captain actually was just christian evil, possessed by the devil, the other plot thing was a misdirection.
Probably the best out of the trilogy, if only because it was medium / fast paced compared to the other two, and becaue it was a little more action packed. Again, compared to the other two books.
If you didn't read or have forgotten it, chapter one fills you in on the first and second books. There's literally no reason to read the first two books unless you REALLY want to.
It's rather dry, detailed, does handle tension and scariness fairly well. Unfortunately horribly sexist in describing pretty much all the women characters in levels of sexiness and how fat their tiddies are.
It gets the barest, driest, minimal points for not making the single Black African character talk like, well you know. A racial stereotype.
"▪ Then she realized that the noise was coming from behind her and it registered as a human voice, accented and cold and slightly girlish. It was too faint to make out individual "
The human teeth belonging to the African man magician is described as feminine. Quell horror. Females... scary!?!?! oh noes DX
This is the background for the magical spookiness that the African sorcerer caused. None of this is real or referenced historical subjects.
Like I mentioned in my review of the very first book in this trilogy, shit sucks. You can find the first review here.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fc9772df-41e1-4637-a4f2-7fe5f12679b7
major anti indigenous racism, antiblack racism, body horror, child abuse, gore, medical content, physical abuse, racism, slut shaming, torture, vomit, w.nd.g word used
medium anti black racism, fatphobia, slavery, torture
minor alcohol, alcoholism, death, drug abuse cocaine, gore, suicide, suicide ideation
EDIT Hi. I'm from the future. Or past, however you wanna read this. So here's the thing, right? I kinda thought we left evil Black people / Magical N*gro shit back in the 1950s or whatever with TinTin Goes To The Congo and all the African stereotypes with the big red rubber circle mouths and chicken bones in their hair.
Yeah, sorry, medium spoilers but this book is that. All of the books are that. It never changes, there's no plot twist of oh, the slave ship captain actually was just christian evil, possessed by the devil, the other plot thing was a misdirection.
Probably the best out of the trilogy, if only because it was medium / fast paced compared to the other two, and becaue it was a little more action packed. Again, compared to the other two books.
If you didn't read or have forgotten it, chapter one fills you in on the first and second books. There's literally no reason to read the first two books unless you REALLY want to.
It's rather dry, detailed, does handle tension and scariness fairly well. Unfortunately horribly sexist in describing pretty much all the women characters in levels of sexiness and how fat their tiddies are.
It gets the barest, driest, minimal points for not making the single Black African character talk like, well you know. A racial stereotype.
"▪ Then she realized that the noise was coming from behind her and it registered as a human voice, accented and cold and slightly girlish. It was too faint to make out individual "
The human teeth belonging to the African man magician is described as feminine. Quell horror. Females... scary!?!?! oh noes DX
Spoiler
▪ She said, ‘They believed it originated in a duplicate world, a world the mirror image of ours except essentially dark and corrupt. You invite it to be born here instead of there and it germinates and grows and becomes sensate and of course hungry. Only someone with enormous power could achieve this voidal transition.’ ‘And Shaddeh had that power?’ ‘Horan’s journal gives an insight into the character of the man universally regarded as the greatest West African sorcerer of the modern age.’ ‘What are the other theories?’ ‘Some scholars maintain that there’s a clandestine side to our existing world, a netherworld, if you will. It’s here among us but conceals itself. The Albacheian sorcerers discovered or created a portal into it and developed a way to engage with its inhabitants.’ ‘None of this is very comforting.’ ‘The third and final theory is that these are alien species. Some of the Albacheian art and iconography supports that argument. So does the long lifespan of the beings and the fact that they’re born already carrying their own offspring and are almost impossible to kill. Biologically, they don’t much resemble mortal creatures in some significant regards.’This is the background for the magical spookiness that the African sorcerer caused. None of this is real or referenced historical subjects.
Like I mentioned in my review of the very first book in this trilogy, shit sucks. You can find the first review here.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fc9772df-41e1-4637-a4f2-7fe5f12679b7
major anti indigenous racism, antiblack racism, body horror, child abuse, gore, medical content, physical abuse, racism, slut shaming, torture, vomit, w.nd.g word used
medium anti black racism, fatphobia, slavery, torture
minor alcohol, alcoholism, death, drug abuse cocaine, gore, suicide, suicide ideation
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Medical content, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Torture
Moderate: Racism, Fatphobia, Torture, and Slavery
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Suicide, Death, and Gore
peterseanesq's review against another edition
5.0
This is the final book in F.G. Cottam's "The Colony" trilogy. In the prior books, we learned the history of New Hope Island, where two hundred years before an entire community had simply disappeared. In the first installment of the trilogy, we followed a band of characters who went to New Hope Island as a publicity stunt for a newspaper. On that expedition, many died and a few escaped when a historical ghost mystery was solved.
The surviving characters found love and friendship, but were recalled to the island when an expedition of writers disappear on New Hope Island. Again, there is a present day mystery and a historical mystery that both must be solved.
Both books were filled with eerie, supernatural happenings, chief among them being a film showing a young girl floating off the ground. The ghostly girl is the late Rachel Balentine, the daughter of the founder of the 18th century New Hope colony. She's been around for a long time, brought back as a result of a slave's curse against her father, but is there more?
Now, it is around two years later and billionaire Felix Baxter intends to build the "New Hope Experience" into a destination resort. Then, a worker mysteriously disappears. The survivors learn of this event. They have unfinished business with Rachel, and, so, they return again to New Hope Island to deal with Rachel, the curse, and perhaps something more deadly than either.
This story is fast-moving. The atmospherics of the story are creepy. The characters are like old friends after the last two books. I think this trilogy would make an excellent movie.
The surviving characters found love and friendship, but were recalled to the island when an expedition of writers disappear on New Hope Island. Again, there is a present day mystery and a historical mystery that both must be solved.
Both books were filled with eerie, supernatural happenings, chief among them being a film showing a young girl floating off the ground. The ghostly girl is the late Rachel Balentine, the daughter of the founder of the 18th century New Hope colony. She's been around for a long time, brought back as a result of a slave's curse against her father, but is there more?
Now, it is around two years later and billionaire Felix Baxter intends to build the "New Hope Experience" into a destination resort. Then, a worker mysteriously disappears. The survivors learn of this event. They have unfinished business with Rachel, and, so, they return again to New Hope Island to deal with Rachel, the curse, and perhaps something more deadly than either.
This story is fast-moving. The atmospherics of the story are creepy. The characters are like old friends after the last two books. I think this trilogy would make an excellent movie.
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