La Via Oscura
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788889541203 (8889541202)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Gargoyle Books
Pages no: 488
Edition language: Italian
Well this was really good! I was pleasantly surprised since I have only really loved one of McCammon's books, "Boy's LIfe." "Mystery Walk" brought back some of that feeling of magical realism along with horror that I liked in the previous book. We also get introduced to some pretty epic characters (...
One of McCammon's weaker efforts IMHO. The characters are too black and white and two-dimensional and don't live for me. I didn't care enough about any of them. This is usually McCammon's strength. The plot is not as rich as McCammon usually makes it either. He usually has multiple threads with...
Well then. I have a feeling that this probably wasn't the best of McCammon's books to start with... or, at least I hope that's the case. I was less than impressed with this one for much of the time it took to get through it, and while I guess it was interesting enough (as in I was interested enough ...
Mystery Walk has everything I love in a story: coming of age characters, good vs. evil, ghosts, suspense, scares... Like all of McCammon's works, Mystery Walk is a huge story I was able to lose myself in.