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28 Oct 2012, 10:01 AM | Post: #1

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Ash: James Herbert

After waiting so long for a new book from James Herbert I was delighted to hear of its publication. The fact that the Kindle version was made available for only 20p was an unexpected bonus, but what a let-down this book proved to be. People who don't like the supernatural horror genre are likely to dismiss all such books as preposterous rubbish. In this case it's not the supernatural elements that should be so dismissed, but the basic plot. The reader is supposed to accept that just about all of the super-villains from the last sixty years are living out their days in a secret hideaway tended by large numbers of staff who never breathe a word of their existence to the outside world. Not only is the plot farcical, but some of the conspiracy theories trotted out must be deeply offensive to the real families involved.
The author clearly hasn't lost the ability to string words together into sentences can carry the story along at a cracking pace, but in this case the story simply isn't worth telling.

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28 Oct 2012, 10:56 AM | Post: #2

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It's in my 'to be read' list, but I noticed that reviews on Amazon weren't very favourable.
I'll still read it and make my own mind up though.

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28 Oct 2012, 11:01 AM | Post: #3

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i liked it on one hand, but on the other hand i didn't like it. I didn't mind the conspiracy theory aspect so much, but it was just so long. I think a lot of it could have been trimmed out and you wouldn't have noticed at all.

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