by Tim Curran
If there is one thing that Tim Curran does well, it's creating atmosphere. In Blackout his descriptions of the blackness are claustrophobic, he continues to build on this throughout the first part of the novella, ratcheting up the tension whenever someone has to venture out into the night.The story ...
Tentacles.Admit it, when you read that word, at least half of you saw your thoughts immediately descend into the murky gutters of tentacle porn, and the filthy dungeons of monster erotica.Tentacles.There was a time, not so long ago, when tentacles were a thing of terror, not titillation; when the id...
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, thank you! After seeing all the positive reviews for Blackout I a) really wanted to read it, and b) really wanted to like it. To avoid spoilers I didn't do a lot of research as to what the stor...
Tim Curran's "Blackout" is a solid work of comfort-zone horror/sci-fi. It is Stephen King's "The Mist" meets H.G. Well's "War of the Worlds". Page turner!4 STARS
I need to preface this review with this: A great many reviewers, whose opinions I highly respect, loved this book, but this was one of those times where I completely disagree with them. This is a perfect example of the old saying, "You can't please everybody all the time." Not everyone is going to h...
Really well done homage to the classic War of the Worlds. Modernized with an interesting twist and Curran's singular gory erudite style. He sent me to google again---this time looking up extinction events. I have read several of Curran's works and he certainly knows his classics and never fails to...
While I would love to write my own short description of the plot, I won't in this case since it might prepare you mentally for what you're about to read. I do promise that the summary that you can see on the book will not prepare you enough. This novella freaked me out. While the plot of many horr...
A quaint little street in middle class suburbia USA. Everybody knows everybody and life is simple…maybe even boring. Not this night, however. Jon’s wife goes missing and he is growing more and more frantic to find out how why she has disappeared. The neighborhood search is on…then the lights go out....
Can I please get a slow clap started? I seriously believe that Blackout deserves one, because I loved this story. So very, very much. I adore when perfectly normal citizens are suddenly thrown into tense survival situations. No special training. No understanding of what's going. These people are run...
This is my first Tim Curran book and I will without a doubt read more. Blackout was a fantastic science fiction story about a neighborhood that discovers that people are disappearing. Something is grabbing them from the sky. First, it is just confusing for them, the stars are gone, the sky is black ...
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