Ig Perrish and Merrin Williams were the perfect couple. Their love was the love that everyone wants but very few people get. But one horrible night Merrin is raped and murdered, and Ig is the prime suspect. Theyd just had a lovers quarrel. Ig was never found guilty, but he was never cleared either. Now a year later Ig wakes up to discover horns coming out of the top of his head. Horns that make everyone who sees them tell him their deepest and darkest desires and secrets.
Hill's writing on the sentence level is gorgeous. He eloquently evokes everything about small New Hampshire towns. He also is talented at drawing three-dimensional male characters; the females are not as well-done, however.
Yet, the story itself fell apart at the end for me. Where it started out as a literary paranormal suspense, at the end it becomes something Nicholas Sparks would write if he was on crack. I, honestly, was not expecting a tragic love story. I was expecting horror and demons and the worst of humanity. I can only handle mushiness if I'm expecting it, and honestly the ending just felt so ordinary compared to the rest of the book.
Its hard to categorize this book. Its definitely not the horror book I was imagining. Id call it literary paranormal suspense. Its a classic tragedy wrapped in mystery and the paranormal. It didnt work for me, because, well, classic love tragedies tend not to. However, I could see some people loving it. Perhaps people who loved The Notebook and paranormal romance equally well.
Check out my full review.
Hill's writing on the sentence level is gorgeous. He eloquently evokes everything about small New Hampshire towns. He also is talented at drawing three-dimensional male characters; the females are not as well-done, however.
Yet, the story itself fell apart at the end for me. Where it started out as a literary paranormal suspense, at the end it becomes something Nicholas Sparks would write if he was on crack. I, honestly, was not expecting a tragic love story. I was expecting horror and demons and the worst of humanity. I can only handle mushiness if I'm expecting it, and honestly the ending just felt so ordinary compared to the rest of the book.
Its hard to categorize this book. Its definitely not the horror book I was imagining. Id call it literary paranormal suspense. Its a classic tragedy wrapped in mystery and the paranormal. It didnt work for me, because, well, classic love tragedies tend not to. However, I could see some people loving it. Perhaps people who loved The Notebook and paranormal romance equally well.
Check out my full review.
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