A review by nigelbrown
Der Pakt der Liebenden by Georg Schmidt, John Connolly

5.0

When setting the scene, many writers fail to either, fully hold your attention or just plain waffle their way through. Connolly makes you think that every word he writes is crucial to the story, he makes you believe that every character has their own story worth reading and he is also capable of sending a shiver right through your core with his ability to write about subjects many would not dare to touch on. Horror/ Supernatural is not usually a genre that would interest me, having read my share about twenty five years ago, but he manages to pull it off with the mixture of Horror and Thriller and he does it very well by making you believe that an otherworld were spirits and fallen angels crossover may really exist. Charlie Parker has to be one of my favourite characters in any novel and the supporting characters are superbly written as well. Parker's friends Angel and Louis take more of a back seat in this one but are more than compensated for with the characters from his and his fathers past.