My Review of
THE SHADOWS
BY Alex North
Published by @CeladonBooks
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Well I did enjoy The Shadows with a bit of story and characters taken from the debut novel The Whisper Man, I must say I did not love this book. I was highly anticipating reading this book but I think I feel a bit let down as it lacks the magic & luster that was The Whisper Man. I don’t like the main character Paul or who he has become just disappearing and leaving his mother all those years before.
It takes the former child suspect, Paul from THE WHISPER MAN and ages him 25 years later, narrating the tale of Charlie Crabtree and how he got away with murder. Charlie teaches Paul and his friends how to lucid dream and perform violent acts while in a dreamlike state. After the murder occurred, those who were responsible were captured except for Charlie Crabtree who had said he would escape and never return to Earth via his lucid dreaming.
25 years later, there seems to be copycat murders and someone posing as Charlie Crabtree or is he actually still around inciting other children into lucid dreaming and murderous acts of violence?
When Paul returns home to attend to his mother now that she’s in a nursing home with failing health, he is pulled back into the past that he tried to escape from all those years ago. He finds out that there have been secrets he never knew while he was away, some are even his own mothers.
I did enjoy a few twists that I did not see coming and saddened at the same time. I still recommend it to readers but please don’t expect it to be another Whisper Man by far. I really hope North starts fresh away from this storyline and writes another compelling, scary chiller!
THE SHADOWS
BY Alex North
Published by @CeladonBooks
************
Well I did enjoy The Shadows with a bit of story and characters taken from the debut novel The Whisper Man, I must say I did not love this book. I was highly anticipating reading this book but I think I feel a bit let down as it lacks the magic & luster that was The Whisper Man. I don’t like the main character Paul or who he has become just disappearing and leaving his mother all those years before.
It takes the former child suspect, Paul from THE WHISPER MAN and ages him 25 years later, narrating the tale of Charlie Crabtree and how he got away with murder. Charlie teaches Paul and his friends how to lucid dream and perform violent acts while in a dreamlike state. After the murder occurred, those who were responsible were captured except for Charlie Crabtree who had said he would escape and never return to Earth via his lucid dreaming.
25 years later, there seems to be copycat murders and someone posing as Charlie Crabtree or is he actually still around inciting other children into lucid dreaming and murderous acts of violence?
When Paul returns home to attend to his mother now that she’s in a nursing home with failing health, he is pulled back into the past that he tried to escape from all those years ago. He finds out that there have been secrets he never knew while he was away, some are even his own mothers.
I did enjoy a few twists that I did not see coming and saddened at the same time. I still recommend it to readers but please don’t expect it to be another Whisper Man by far. I really hope North starts fresh away from this storyline and writes another compelling, scary chiller!