Advantages: Brilliantly written Disadvantages: Sadly Richard Laymon is dead, so new book releases will dry up if you become a fan
...you everything that happens in Amara by Richard Laymon I will write the description that is on the book cover and then give my views on the story.
The cover description is:-
Amara, Princess of Egypt, the once beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the first, lies in her coffin in the Charles Ward Museum. She has been dead for 4000 years and she’s just an inanimate bundle of withered skin and desiccated bone. Or is she?
Barney the night watchman is the first ... ...can’t testify to anything.
Now Amara is free again, driven by an ancient need that can only be assuaged at the cost of human life. No one can oppose her, no bullet can stop her and nothing can kill her – for she is dead already…
Pretty scary stuff then? Well yes, the thing I like about Richard Laymon books is that the reading can often be uncomfortable and yet you carry on with a morbid fascination; not willing, or able to stop. In Amara a selection ...
stuleg 10.06.2003
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Advantages: Great characters and great story Disadvantages: Not as scary as some horror stories
...local library, where I found Amara by Richard Laymon. It wasn't difficult for me to make a decision about borrowing it as a) I like horror stories b) I like Richard Laymon books and c) it was a massive, thick hardback that there was no chance of me finishing it and then going stir crazy. I had a bloody good go, though!
Amara is a three-thousand year old Egyptian queen. She's also a mummy. As this is a horror story, I don't think that you'll be surprised ... ...and starts killing people. I shan't spoil it for you by saying why (or how). Given the size of the book, there are a lot of characters. They all hold the reader's interest well, for as long as they're alive anyway! Some characters seem to bear no relevance to the rampaging mummy, but this lends a certain intrigue to the story and all becomes clear in the end. For instance, teenager Ed Lake, who is kidnapped and held hostage in a cage. Periodically, ...
tuftie 16.04.2007
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Gripping and completely brilliant - You would never be able to tell it was mashed together by Dean Koontz - A great friend to the late, great, completely unappreciated Richard Laymon! 10/10 ...
rose72 06.06.2007
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