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Savage
Savage
Author: Richard Laymon
Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known murder and beneath the bed on which he's butchering his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy. — So begin the adventures of Trevor Bentley: a boy who embarked on an errand of mercy and ended up on a quest for vengeance, a boy who will bring the horrors of the Ri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780843957518
ISBN-10: 0843957514
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 39 ratings
Publisher: Leisure Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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reviewed Savage on + 224 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I guess I would call this story Laymon Lite, it is a very good story and I enjoyed it immensely. It has considerably less explicit sex and violence than most of his stories, not that I have a problem with either. It is though an exciting and improbable tale that does keep you turning the pages.
Sleepy26177 avatar reviewed Savage on + 218 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Readers of the horror genre will be mighty disappointed by this novel even when used to Lamony's view of writing novels. Despite the interesting book description I actually got to read my very first western novel which isn't exactly my favorite genre. All the time while I went from page to page I expected something to happen but all I got was some cheap western dialogues, some love relationships, desperado's and gun fire.

I really liked the first third which actually held the part where Trevor hid under Mary's bed and the beginning of his chase of the gruesome ripper. Without telling too much, after the third part of the book the Ripper vanished somewhere in New York thinking Trevor's drowned but he isn't. Sometime later Trevor reads in a newspaper about some horrible killings in Virgina and begins his long way towards his nightmares. A 15-year-old kid thrown into the wilderness, bound to become a man or die.

He finally meets the Ripper on the last 50 pages of the book.

Absolutely likeable Laymon used the old manner of speaking. Trevor has such a nice way of speaking that I could almost imagine hearing his British accent talking to some desperado's. Lovely !
TangoBrat avatar reviewed Savage on + 83 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Not Laymon's best work. Not the "typical" work of Laymon. Usually there's a neat twist at the end but I didn't get that this time around.
reviewed Savage on + 25 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I didn't think I'd like this one since it's about Jack The Ripper, but I was pleasantly surprised!
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