ELLO ^^

I read in one day, perhaps the best horror novel I have ever read and thats saying something considering I dont like horror novels!

This book is called The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene

Sypnosis:
One day the rain just didnt stop. As the flood waters
slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared,
some people believed it was the end of the world.
Maybe they were right. But the water wasnt the worst
part. Even more terrifying was what the soaking rains
drove up from beneath the earth - unimaginable creatures,
wirthing, burrowing...and devouring all in their path.
What hope does an already devastated mankind have
against.....THE CONQUEROR WORMS!


Thoughts:
Ok, as you may or may not have guessed from the title, this story is about big honkin worms rising up from under the earth and this is what drew me to the book to begin with, but I quickly found out that there was much more in this book. For example is the role of the Levathian, the Bememoth, A Siren, black magic and seemingly demonic and godly forces at work and a echo of the Biblical flood that leaves all but the highest mountains underwater.....

As I said before I'm not usually one for horror novels, I could never get into them like I could an action thriller, or a fantasy or sci fi, but I decided to take a chance on this book because it was sooooooo god damn cheap and I was very pleased with what I got. This Brian Keene is certainly an Author to watch, he could truly be the next true master of horror, a title which hasnt completely been passed on from the Granddaddy of Horror, the great H.P. Lovecraft, whose Chuthulu mytho is referenced in this book also. I'm seriously wishing I had another $11 so I could go buy his other two books, City of the Dead and The Rising.


Reading Time:
Ok the total time it took for me to read this book would probably be no more then six or seven hours, not including the breaks I was forced to have in between when my nan needed me to move some heavy shit and do shopping for her or when I got home and jumped on the net ^^;


Rating:
9.5/10, I'd give it a 10/10 but I want a carry on story to it XD


In closing, buy this book and read it, you will not be disappointed!

CONQUEROR WORMS?! :blink: It's tremors all over again! AAAHHHH!!!

This sounds like a pretty good read.

YES its that time again already!!

But this time I bring you not one, but two reviews!! Thats right, TWO!!

First up is

Saucer: The Conquest

The Saucer: The Conquest is a follow up book to a novel called Saucer, which followed the adventure of Rip Cantrell after the 21 year old discovers a flying 140,000 year old flying Saucer embedded in a Sandrock legde in the Sahara. However i have yet to read that one yet as I didnt know it existed until I started reading The Conquest, so we shall skip ahead one year to the events of the second book!!

Sypnoise:

After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft and delivering it to safety in the National Air and Space Museum, where it is displayed alongside Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Rip and Charley think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. Bored with Rip's aimless wanderings, Charley accepts a job flying space planes to the moon for the French lunar base project. There she discovers a world-threatening anti-gravity beam that could only have been constructed using saucer technology.

She steals a space plane and flies back to earth to sound the warning. Meanwhile, the French kidnap Rip's uncle Egg—and force him to fly a saucer hidden in Area 51 to the moon.

Rip and Charley must steal the first saucer from its new home at the museum and hit the not-so-friendly skies again in order to save Uncle Egg and the world from a twisted modern-day Napoleon bent on conquest.


Review:

This book had its good points and its bad points but all in all it was an alright story, it would probably have been better if I had read the previous book first, but seeing as I didnt know about it until i started reading Conquest I can get away with it >>

The characterization was alright and the action wasnt half bad, but some of the dog fights between the Sahara Saucer and the Roswell Saucer came off as being highly technical and didn't flow very well. Nevertheless the story was entertaining and I'd like to see it made into a movie someday and I like the little twist at the end that he left there for a possible third story which I will most definitely read if it comes out.

Rating: 7/10


And now for the other one!!


City of the Dead!!

Well this is another story by Brian Keene, author of the The Conqueror Worm book I reveiwed the other day and it was good!

Summary:

Where can you go when the dead are everywhere? Cities have become overrun with legions of the dead, all of them intent on destroying what's left of the living. Trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, a handful of survivors prepare to make their last stand against an unstoppable, undying enemy. With every hour their chances diminish and their numbers dwindle, while the numbers of the dead can only rise. Because sooner or later, everything dies. And then it comes back, ready to kill. sequel to the Stoker-winning The Rising (2003).


Review: Ok, so I didnt know it was a Sequel until I just found that sypnoises >>;;

But thats how good it is, you really dont need to read the Rising to understand whats going on in City of the Dead because its so very well explained to. Its all one non stop Zombie action. But I should warn you these are unlike any Zombies you have ever seen before, they're gruesom, they're vicious and unrelenting. They won't stop until all is dead. Read this book, it rocks!

Rating 100/10 because it has a Zombie baby in it!

Merged,cause there's really no point in having two threads doing the same thing RIv