I won’t talk about the story, you must dive in it without a clue, like I did . You just have to know that the plot is well developed and unexpected. There is often so less action, few cliffhangers, nothing one is used to in modern writing to pimp, accelerate, and distract from characterization, plotting, and logical flaws and errors, Simmons is using pure characterization and a complex, interwoven net of protagonists and antagonists to lead the long novel to a culmination of epic proportion. I just finished Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons here is the review I made up for it. I listened to the Audible Presentation which runs 39.5 hours unabridged. The performance is really well done. This book is one of the best horror story , that I listened and read , ( when I couldn’t listen), this year. In Monica's mind it felt like she was almost going crazy. She has no idea what the crow wants or what it signifies. The crow actually creeped me out, never mind Monica! As time passes, we find out more about Monica and her past and things certainly are not as straight forward as they first appear.

The timelines of the story in 1940s Poland and Israel, and as well as The United States in the 1980s are framed within and often reference actual events being directly or indirectly manipulated by characters with 'The Ability': The novel portrays a tiny fraction of humanity that has immense psychic powers, which they refer to as "The Ability.” These powers can be used to completely control people from a distance to commit any physical action, including murder. This Ability has been used throughout history to have a direct or indirect influence, via the perceived charisma of world leaders or the actions of more covert individuals, on everything from individual senseless murders to the Holocaust. Across multiple timelines, the novel mostly follows two groups of amoral people in 1980, some with aspirations of world domination, as their clashing involves a group of investigators. These non-psychic investigators follow a series of bizarre murders to the conclusion that a cabal of powerful psychics must be stopped. As I mentioned, the bad guys are EVIL, and we even get a first person account from one of them, while the rest is told in third. That was interesting, and Melanie's scenes damn near steal the book. Otra aspecto que me llamó mucho la atención es que normalmente el argumento de las novelas tiene un norte claro (descubrir al asesino, saber quién está tras de la conspiración, quien ganará la batalla, si el héroe se quedará con la princesa...) Sin embargo, en este libro, el autor empieza a desmadejar acontecimientos que absorben a los personajes, envolviéndolos en una seguidilla de sucesos y revelaciones que los supera. No saben a qué se enfrentan, ni cómo seguir. Incluso hay un momento en la novela en que el único objetivo es sobrevivir. As a child she moved around frequently with her family, spending time in London, Provence, Tuscany, Gloucestershire and Cambridgeshire.The villains are powerful mind vampires, very racist, homophobic and misogynistic . They are living among the society, using and killing innocents bystanders for fun . The antagonists, and there are too many to count, are some of the most sadistic, vile and racist bunch I have encountered. I can' t help but compare the True Knot from Doctor Sleep to this group, only severely watered down and nowhere near as creepy. Maybe it is due to having read King's newest while I read this one. Not sure, but there are similarities. Natalie Preston, a photographer whose father was killed and is determined to get answers and revenge. Grumblethorpe, The Fuller House, and other historic houses on the National Register of Historic Places

Much of the suspense of the story is in how it develops so I don't want to give a synopsis. I'll just say that there are these really bad dudes (and dudettes) that are able to control the actions of other people. Over the course of the book they're eventually called "mind vampires". One of the bad guys does use this for sexual violence so there are definitely triggers in this, but it did only happen at the beginning and then the story became much larger and more complex and he wasn't in the book enough for it to be a consistent issue.

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Tony Harod, a powerful Hollywood producer with minor use of 'The Ability' which he can only use on females. He often helps The Island Club with hopes of becoming a member. I think it's fair to say that Monica is left fairly traumatised after a tragic accident that takes her husbands and unborn baby's lives. She understandably goes to pieces and seems to sink further into a deep depression. Not only is she in a very dark place, she seems to be getting stalked by a crow. La línea de tiempo que se usa para presentar la trama también es muy atractiva ya que no es precisamente lineal; cada poco se devuelve en uno o dos días para explicar algún acontecimiento, por supuesto desde la perspectiva de otro personaje. Obliga al lector a estar muy atento, sobre todo porque los primeros dos tercios de la novela (650 páginas aprox.) transcurren en apenas dos semanas. As the story develops and an elderly Dr. Laksi seeks to hunt down his past demon, he stumbles across a vast conspiracy where a cabal of powerful "vampires" seeks to play the game on a global scale. To stop this threat Dr Laski embarks on a strange adventure, accompanied by Natalie Preston, a young woman who had her father murdered by one of these vampire games, they must face not only the vampires but their pawns as well.

Carrion Comfort is a mess of a book. Not only are there evil, mind-controlling vampires, the things they do are just so ripe with evil. It's almost like they give evil a new name.

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In her early twenties she moved to Oxford, where she would eventually meet her husband. During her time in Oxford her interests turned from poetry to novels and she began to develop her own unique style of psychological thriller. The characters Saul and Natalie, learning about the actions of The Trio and The Island Club, observe that these people with immense psychic powers could be considered a type of vampire, as they feed off the energy of those they indirectly kill to gain youth and energy. Third, there were a few instances where I was wondering, "How did we get there from where we were?" It kind of felt like an action was missing...That's kind of a minor thing. I'm a very visual reader, and this book is very visual. From the critically acclaimed psychological thriller writer comes Betsy Reavley's chilling second novel. Reavley says "I think people are at their most fascinating when they are faced with life's real horrors." This is what I love to write about.

MaGiCa (с "Бряг край мътни води" - Джо Р. Лансдейл, "Пътуващо представление с вампир" - Ричард Леймън, "Рога" Джо Хил (син на Стивън Кинг), "Градска готика" - Брайън Кийн, споменатият "Момчешки живот" и още купчина култови заглавия от литературата с остър сюжет) и моята добра приятелка (писателка и преводачка) Елена Павлова. I say all this not to criticize the book (as you can see, I rated it 5 stars) but to explain why it took forever to read it. I’ll just say that there’s this mean racist old vampire woman born in time of racial segregation . There’s this Nazi SS vampire . I hated them both. And there are others wealthy ,hateful vampires who despise everyone. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Carrion Comfort's story is complex, and involves several parties. Not only are these parties involved in a bigger picture, but they also have their own stories and action. There really isn't a main character, but several main characters, and several minor characters. As far as main characters go, Saul was my definite favorite. His story from the past to the present was so intriguing, and his time in WWII in the concentration camps was probably my favorite part of the entire novel. His cat and mouse relationship with the one and only Oberst was interesting, and I found myself cheering for him to succeed and avenge what and who the Oberst had done and is. The other characters: Natalie, Rob, Melanie, and Harod were also some of my favorite characters. Even though some of those characters were part of the evil side, I found I still enjoyed reading about them.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair which Hopkins called carrion comfort." If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves." A very interesting premise and a good story. The ending was also surprising and I appreciated it. This was a fine example of Mr. Simmon's horror writing abilities. The story is vast and exciting. The "vampire" Willi Borden ( SS Oberst Wilhelm Von Borchert) is quite the evil character and stands out for his particular level of cruelty.