Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker

I used to really enjoy reading Clive Barkers work, but gradually I feel myself slowly becoming more and more disillusioned with each book I read. I’m not quite sure why, although maybe penning this opinion may make it clearer to myself. The Cast Todd Pickett*, a heartthrob film star*, poor boy made good*, an ‘ageing’ film star*, adored by millions gradually becoming less and less bankable*. He’s represented by a shrew of an agent* Maxine, and lusted after by the head of his appreciation society (not a fan club!) Tammy, an overweight (his words, not mine) not particularly good looking lady with ... more

The main character Clive Barker's Coldheart Canyon is Todd Pickett, a fading Hollywood film star who undergoes a plastic surgery operation to improve his declining good looks only for the procedure to go horribly wrong, leaving him disfigured and his career in ruins. He buys a secluded house in a little-known place of Coldheart Canyon, hidden amongst the lavish estates of the Hollywood stars, and it is here that he becomes embroiled in a turbulent relationship with a dominatrix-like Romanian woman by the name of Katya, who appears to be the spitting image of a Burlesque-style, Hollywood film ... more