Advantages: A bit of suspense and thriller Disadvantages: Poorly written and a but far fetched sometimes
...town and gets a job in the local Library. She feels her life is very mundane and boring and she will not be able to meet new people but then an envelope appears on her desk in the library with her name on it. She opens it to find $50 and a note with a clue which leads her upstairs to a book where she finds another envelope with a note but this time with $100. The notes are signed MOG (Master of Games) and each note has another clue which leads her ... ...in order to get the next envelope, each containing twice as much money as before.
I started off really enjoying this book and thought the suspense was quite good and 'where will she be sent and what will she have to do next?' but then I thought the book started to get a little far fetched. First of all she is being sent to stranger and stranger places and being asked to do horrible things (such as walk into an abandoned house, go upstairs to an ...
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Advantages: Answers questions about the Ripper Disadvantages: It's just fiction
Follows the story of Trevor Bentley a fifteen year old boy that lives in London East End.
The date is 8 November 1888 and Trevors mother has been beaten by a drunken friend of
his fathers (who is deceased).After rendering the man unconscious with the fireplace poker
Trevor heads out to retrieve his uncle.Finding his uncle not at home Trevor sets out on
foot determined not to return home without him.
After several mishaps and some nasty close ... ...warm himself.After a bit of investigating he finds the room is the dwelling of an
unfortunate named Mary Kelly.Hearing voices returning to the room Trevor dives under
the bed to hide.
Eventually they leave and Trevor drifts off to sleep.Later he is awoken by a squeal,not a
squeal of pleasure like she had been making earlier,but one filled with pain and fear.Frozen
in fear he hears the wet smacking sounds of flesh being carved and blood drips ...
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The Travelling Vampire Show By Richard Laymon is more or less what all his other books are, only not as good as the rest. But it isn’t half bad either.
Dwight is a like a goody two shoes but he can’t resist going along with his friends plans, especially slims who’s actual name is Frances and yes she is a girl. Slim is a very tomboyish type of person who likes to change her name often. Or maybe it is her personality or her past she is trying to change… ... ...habits. He’s a bit on the overweight side where as his other two friends are slim. So Dwight a solider type (hardly surprising since his dad is a cop’
Slim a bad girl (sort off and this can be explained by her mysterious past I suppose.)
Rusty a rather pervey type with a very boring life almost I guess.
Anyway to move on the story is that the three friends have a month or so to kill before their next school term starts and unfortunately Grandville ...
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Dr Corrie Dalton thought it would be a good idea to throw an end of term party for her
six summer class students.She may have thought differently had she known they would
find her Ouija board and get it into there heads to play it.
Reguardless of her caution they decide to try it out anyway and summon the spirit of
Butler who claims that it can lead them to hidden treasure.After leading them to some cash
stuffed down the back of the sofa they ... ...Before they can go any further they are interrupted by the doorbell.It's Chad the brother of
Corries deceased husband she hasn't seen since he left without a word several years
earlier.The students leave so Corrie and Chad can catch up (and catch up they do!!!) but
not before they steal the board so they can claim the treasure Butler claims is in the
mountains.
When Corrie realizes what has happened the next morning she feels responsible so ...
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Advantages: There are 3 books Disadvantages: Not long enough
The Beast House is a fantastic sequal to The Cellar and a brilliant prequal to the Midnight Tour. I had not realised that there was a trilogy to the "Beast story" and I did not read them in order. I thought each was a compelling read in it's own right. Not wanting to give away too much of the story, The Cellar follows the story of a Beast which seems to inhabit Malcassa Point. There are twists and turns in the plot which kept me reading long into ... ...a horror! The Beast kills in the Beast House, an old house where the beast first killed which has been turned into a tourist attraction. For all Laymon fans it is definately a must. After I had finished The Cellar I had to run out and buy the other two books in the trilogy. Definately not one to ponder over in the book shop. ...
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