The Devil in Silver (Playaway)
ISBN:
9781611208573
Publish date: September 1st 2012
Publisher: Dreamscape Media/Playaway
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Novels,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Health,
Thriller,
Horror,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
I am just as shocked that I found "The Devil in Silver" to be a three star read. This was a tough one for me to get through. I almost DNFed it at one point because I just found myself getting bored with this book. I think the reason why is that it started off as kind of a potential horror book that ...
interesting point of view of man (perhaps wrongfully) involuntarily committed to a psych ward 3 1/2 *
Pepper is brought to the New Hyde mental institution, because he got into a fight with the police. He believes that the police have dropped him there, rather than do all the paperwork it would take to arrest him. He's sure that he'll be out after the weekend, but many weeks later he finds himself j...
Mostly while I read this, I just kept asking, "Why?"Why does the narrator break out and speak to the reader directly every so often?Why doesn't anyone, including Pepper, care that there's this guy in a mental facility for no apparent reason?Why am I listening to this?Why did it take so long to get t...
Victor LaValle has a real gift for describing authentic "stage business," character gestures, ticks, and body language. These aspects of his writing seem to be drawn directly, and relayed expertly, from observation. This book is frightening and sad and very funny, too. The humor works so well becaus...
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