Advantages: Good start, amusing characters, fairly tense at times Disadvantages: Unconvincing story and ludicrous plot twists
...serious? Probably not, no.
After Midnight centres on a character called Alice who, after her friend Serena goes away on holiday with her boyfriend, has a nice big house all to herself. It quickly becomes apparent how paranoid Alice is being in a large house on her own (although nobody is forcing her), as much of the side of the house is made of glass, so people can see in (or out, if you look at it that way). Things are about to go pear-shaped for ... ...wonders towards the house just after the phone-rings, and he thinks Alice is calling the police, so flees. She has actually been called by Tony, a seemingly insignificant wrong number (they never are, of course), and she tells him of the man in her pool and how scared she was and hangs up.
Much of the early chapters in the book are well-written and undeniably tense page-turners - Alice creeps round the house in the dark whilst sensing someone might ...
tom1clare 18.07.2003
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Advantages: A good story, charcters and very good detail. Disadvantages: Veerrrrrrry lonnnnnng and not very realistic
Laymon is a great writer but this is somewhat disappointing. It’s about a young woman called Alice who is house sitting for some friends. One night she stays too long at their house instead of returning to her home above their garage and that is when the midnight caller decides to pay her a call. Getting ready to dash back to her place Alice finds she isn’t alone as there is someone out in the garden near the pool… And when this psycho tries to tempt ... ...wrong number. Before the guy at the other end hangs up she tells him where she is and what is happening, requesting help. But then her mystery man disappears… the caller on the phone is so concerned about Alice that he pays her a call in person only to have his head slashed off by her. Now the main character of our story is stuck with a body. As she plans to get rid of it other things fall attract her attention that could cause her to wind up in ...
rose3000 19.04.2004 (21.04.2004)
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