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A review by errantdreams
The Claiming by Ike Hamill
4.0
I love this book. It was just the sort of creeping horror that I was looking forward to. The characters in particular are quite good–they had fully-developed personalities, they changed in response to the events of the story, and I cared about what happened to them.
There were some surprises. Obviously I’m not going to go into them here or they wouldn’t be surprises. I will say that I did not get bored reading this book–I continually looked forward to what happened next.
The pacing was fantastic; even one four-year jump in the story didn’t trip me up. Tense chases and horrifying events blended well with smaller, calmer interludes, leading up to a great climax.
I had trouble putting The Claiming down to do other things, and I immediately decided to read another Ike Hamill book next. I’m in a definite horror-reading mode this week and I’ve been trying out various authors’ work. Of the handful of authors I’ve tried so far, Hamill’s the only author who has made me want to go out and read his other works.
Original review can be found on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/01/review-the-claiming-ike-hamill/
There were some surprises. Obviously I’m not going to go into them here or they wouldn’t be surprises. I will say that I did not get bored reading this book–I continually looked forward to what happened next.
The pacing was fantastic; even one four-year jump in the story didn’t trip me up. Tense chases and horrifying events blended well with smaller, calmer interludes, leading up to a great climax.
I had trouble putting The Claiming down to do other things, and I immediately decided to read another Ike Hamill book next. I’m in a definite horror-reading mode this week and I’ve been trying out various authors’ work. Of the handful of authors I’ve tried so far, Hamill’s the only author who has made me want to go out and read his other works.
Original review can be found on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/01/review-the-claiming-ike-hamill/