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A review by kpombiere
Haven by Tom Deady
2.0
We figure out the monster around page 300; things start happening at page 400; the book revisits the monster around page 460; it ends on page 500. And even then there's no closure, and everyone runs around with their heads cut off for a while.
Oh yeah, and of the four major female characters, one is a gossipmonger, one spends the novel insane and then beaten, one is a murdered cat-lady, and the other is a teenager who spends the last couple chapters screaming with her legs broken.
I'm disappointed I spent more than half of the novel just keeping my head down to power through. While I get the Stephen King similarities, there's a difference between his pacing and ability to make believable small-towns-America and this.
Oh yeah, and of the four major female characters, one is a gossipmonger, one spends the novel insane and then beaten, one is a murdered cat-lady, and the other is a teenager who spends the last couple chapters screaming with her legs broken.
I'm disappointed I spent more than half of the novel just keeping my head down to power through. While I get the Stephen King similarities, there's a difference between his pacing and ability to make believable small-towns-America and this.