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errantdreams's review
3.0
Hamill is good at coming up with new bad guys for his various horror/thriller novels. The succubus is very much not the popular depiction of a physically stunning woman--she simply has powers that turn people to her side and addict them to her. I very much like what he did with her form and personality. The other characters are interesting as well. Don’s sister Chelsea starts out seeming like a total witch, but she improves later in the book, and with good reason.
I kind of wish David either hadn’t been involved at all, or had been more thoroughly involved. His ‘intuition’ has become too convenient. In some places I can buy into it, but in others it feels like he’s being used as an artifact to move the plot along properly. He’s becoming a little too much like the boy in Hamill’s Extinct, and he’s starting to feel like an author’s cheat card.
The pacing worked well, and there were some tense moments, though not as many as I’d have liked. Again, intuitions and nightmares threw things off a bit. I go back and forth on Ike Hamill’s books; this is one of the less-well-done, in my opinion. Instead, go read Madelyn’s Nephew.
Original review on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/03/review-blood-ghost-ike-hamill/
I kind of wish David either hadn’t been involved at all, or had been more thoroughly involved. His ‘intuition’ has become too convenient. In some places I can buy into it, but in others it feels like he’s being used as an artifact to move the plot along properly. He’s becoming a little too much like the boy in Hamill’s Extinct, and he’s starting to feel like an author’s cheat card.
The pacing worked well, and there were some tense moments, though not as many as I’d have liked. Again, intuitions and nightmares threw things off a bit. I go back and forth on Ike Hamill’s books; this is one of the less-well-done, in my opinion. Instead, go read Madelyn’s Nephew.
Original review on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/03/review-blood-ghost-ike-hamill/
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