Sarah Langan
Paperback | Pages: 382 pages Rating: 3.32 | 2093 Users | 218 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Keeper (Keeper Series, Book #1) |
| ISBN: | 0061173029 (ISBN13: 9780060872908) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Keeper #1 |
| Setting: | Maine(United States) |
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Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . something. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror.Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here-from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go-will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.
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| Title | : | The Keeper (Keeper #1) |
| Author | : | Sarah Langan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 382 pages |
| Published | : | August 29th 2006 by Harper Torch 2006-09-01 (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.32 From 2093 Users | 218 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books The Keeper (Keeper #1)
I do not believe I've ever read a horror novel that was so directionless and dull. Uninteresting characters doing pointless things resulting in an indifferent plot. If the author wasn't such a good writer I would have rated this one star. But she appears to have some promise even in this unimpressive debut. So I'll hover at two and hope she does better in the future.Sarah Langan takes the small American town, slowly dying from it's only economical stability taken from it, and puts some real horror in it. Sure, we've seen this before, and many of the themes that's explored in The Keeper is stuff that has be done. But, when one does it so well as Langan does here, stuff like that just doesn't matter a whole lot. This is a tragic and sad horror story about a girl that never got treated right, and who, in the end, decided to take revenge in a very grave sense.
Rain and zombies come to a small town in Maine. Scary stuff. But why do things like this always happen in Maine? I tell you what... I read this book while on vacation in Utah. Someone should write a horror novel about a small town in that state. Snow and zombies in Park City. That would really be scary.
Have I ever told you I hate stupid endings? In case you missed it previously - I hate stupid cliffhanging endings. And in this case, I'm not even sure I want to read the next one. I felt like I was in the middle of an LSD high through much of this book. Many, if not all, of the characters were very unlikable. The only thing I learned is if you died in this small town, you may not necessarily stay dead. And all dreams are bad.
Bedford, Maine, is a town with one industry: the paper mill. Its been poisoning the water and air for generations, and workers have all sorts of physical complaints from breathing sulfur and other toxic fumes, but if anyone thought about it, theyd know that the recent closing of the mill probably dooms their town.But no ones thinking about the mill and the towns economy. Instead, theyre all focused on Susan Marley. Shes a silent, beautiful woman in her mid-20s who lives in squalor, turning a
It's the time of year I turn to more horror novels. The Keeper is a good novel, but a bit of a slow burn, leaning to more mood piece than funhouse horror. It's a story told mainly through backstories and scenery building. Like going to a play and watching the set designers working instead of the actors carrying the story. That doesn't make it bad thing. I did like the book and I appreciated the idea of a town haunted by its own sins and failures. I've never lived in a factory town, but my
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