What are you currently reading?

[RonClinton]

Well, that's a bummer. I was hoping for a great review to give me a reason to try Nevill again. I read The Ritual due to all the rave reviews and really found it to be a slog. There was some good ideas and some great set pieces but it just dragged on and on. In fact, it is the only instance in which I think the movie is so much better than the book. That being said, I've been meaning to try another one of his books because he does seem to have a solid following. Your sparse comments coupled with some reviews I've read has given me the sense that Fiends of Hell is not the one I should try.

My experience was limited to THE RITUAL — which had a great first half — and BANQUET FOR THE DAMNED, which did a nice job of evoking a setting, albeit at the cost of character. This was my first of his recent self-published work, and I won’t be going back to that well. Poor characterization, excruciatingly drawn-out scenes, and a way of writing in a self-aware, almost purple-prose style that utilized overwrought, odd word choice, a very distracting style that I don’t remember from those two aforementioned novels.

[dannyboy121070]

I've read a few Neville books that I've enjoyed, but they were all much longer than they needed to be.

[Sock Monkey]

….aaannd so much that hope. Oh well, on to the next book.

Well, that's a bummer. I was hoping for a great review to give me a reason to try Nevill again. I read The Ritual due to all the rave reviews and really found it to be a slog. There was some good ideas and some great set pieces but it just dragged on and on. In fact, it is the only instance in which I think the movie is so much better than the book. That being said, I've been meaning to try another one of his books because he does seem to have a solid following. Your sparse comments coupled with some reviews I've read has given me the sense that Fiends of Hell is not the one I should try.

[RonClinton]

Starting THE FIENDS OF HELL by Adam Nevill...hopefully it'll be more satisfying than the above Langan.

….aaannd so much that hope. Oh well, on to the next book.

[RonClinton]

Starting THE FIENDS OF HELL by Adam Nevill...hopefully it'll be more satisfying than the above Langan. That said, I'm looking forward to going back to her backlist and reading her three mm pbos...I loved GOOD NEIGHBORS too much to let one misfire warn me away from doing so.