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Silk
Silk
Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
"An extraordinary achievement" (Clive Barker) from the author of the acclaimed novel Threshold-this is the fiction debut that won the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel. Despite its title, there's nothing smooth or sexy about this skin-crawling debut from Kiernan, an author with one helluvan imagination and a startling lack of...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780451456687
ISBN-10: 0451456688
Publication Date: 11/2002
Pages: 336
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 39 ratings
Publisher: Roc
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 3
Caitlin Kiernan's debut novel. It's got every splatterpunk trope imaginable all rolled into one of the most spellbinding horror novels ever written. Oh yeah, and it kicks butt too.
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Helpful Score: 3
I found the ending SUPREMELY unsatisfying (she's engaging in some experimental writing), but the rest of the book was good. Somehow that only made the betrayal at the end -- by the author, not of any character by another -- more disheartening. Clearly, she CAN write a cracking good yarn ... she just chose not to in this case.
CheriePie avatar reviewed Silk on + 149 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I liked the tone of this book. The style was in the genre of gothic horror, aka Poppy Z. Brite. And the whole theme with spiders and creepy crawlies made my spine tingle and raised the hair on my arms. The author did a good job with the main characters, the descriptions vivid and allowing you to know and understand the characters well. I noticed a symmetry between some of the main characters and their past, particularly with Daria and Spyder. I'm looking forward to reading the followup to this, Murder of Angels.
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Helpful Score: 2
i thought it was a little bit of a slow read.. the plot didnt run very smoothly and the language was just slow reading for me..
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Helpful Score: 1
FROM THE PUBLISHER
They are twentysomething misfits...society's castoffs...urban strays looking for thrill. Something cheap, anything to get them through the night. Only their music is different. Sleepwalking on caffeine, nicotine, and drugs, they wait out the dawn in death-rock clubs and shadowy back alleys.
Into their midst comes the enigmatic Spyder. A patron saint of the aliented and lost, she invites them into her mesmerizing world of ritual and ceremony, blood and fire... a realm of vengeful gods, of exiled spirits harboring the dark secrets of Hell -- and the darker secrets of Heaven. Is she their guardian angel, forcing them to face their greatest fears even as she battles to save their ravaged souls? Or a much more terrifying force sent not to redeem but to destroy?

Somewhere between sanity and madness lies the shocking, vivid imagination of this extraordinary new writer. A novel unlike anything you have ever read, Silk will change the texture of modern horror forever.
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azariel avatar reviewed Silk on + 5 more book reviews
I haven't finished this book yet, but it's really good. It really draws you in, with the backstory and the characters--the events happening. You want to know what happens next. But it starts out pretty slow, and doesn't get to the "heart" until you get much farther.
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This is a good one if you like Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, etc. I didn't think much of the writing style, but the characters and setting were quite interesting.
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This is a great book--I'm only posting it because I found a hardcover edition on clearance.


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