Beware
ISBN:
9780450058035 (0450058034)
Edition language: English
Fast-paced, economically worded, sleazy, nasty, crazy, utterly unbelievable, and still "rump" obsessed (I counted its use 10 times in this one), Beware! is a lesser Laymon throwback. How many other authors could construct a narrative that mixes a supernatural cult, a mysterious presence in a market ...
In Beware, the story starts off with Lacey Allen, a small town reporter, who is covering attacks by a mysterious assailant making attacks at a local market. Lacey is stalked and attacked by this assailant, who turns out to be invisible. After she escapes, she is on the run. In a separate story line,...
This is a so-so invisible man story a la Laymon, which means heavy doses of sex and over-the-top blood and gore.3 STARS
Good story line. Original plot. Certainly a page turner. Don't know why Mr. Laymon felt compelled to have a rape scene occur at least once (sometimes several times) every 30 pages or so. Pretty much every character in the novel was obsessed with sex to the point that it made me just roll my eyes ...
Although I thought the storyline was fantastic, the realism of what happened with the main character was horrible. Anyone who was violated the way she was would NEVER be interested nor trusting of others. (trying desperately not to give anything away here....) This book is full of violence, murder a...