So far the book "White Devil" starts out slow and very explanatory. It's about an American boy (Andrew) who is shipped off by his father to an all-boys English School to make right with his past decisions. With the school's extremely strict rules, Andrew's father believes the school will set Andrew ...
I loved Justin Evans' A Good And Happy Child - loved it - so I was rather enthused to read this one. Sure, I wasn't too struck on the blurb, but that was true of his other book and that turned out to be great. This one, not so much. Part of it is not the fault of the book: I am hypersensitised t...
Andrew Taylor is on his last chance. Caught at his school in America with drugs he's now in Harrow, an English Boarding School trying to fit in. As a strange coincidence he resembles Byron and he finds that there's a mystery he needs to solve to lay a ghost to rest. It took a while for this to ge...
I like slow and gothic. What I don't understand in the logic of this book are the following quibbles-1. A poet writing a play about Bryon has only a small volume of select poetry? You can find paperback versions of the complete poems.2. An American boy who went to a very liberal school that celebr...
A thoroughly ordinary Gothic mystery. It hits all of its marks and acquits itself nicely - but it doesn't bring anything new to the table. If you're looking for a reliable ghost story, you could do a lot worse - but this book doesn't have anything that demands your attention. Read it in October -...
Review posted on Dark Faerie Tales.I have never read anything by Justin Evans, but when I was given The White Devil, I was definitely intrigued. This genre is outside of my reading comfort zone, but didn’t stop me from admiring the graphically haunting cover. The White Devil was the cause of eerie g...
I wish I liked this more than I did, after reading the blurb I thought I would have LOVED it!SYNOPSIS Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys’ boarding school in London, achilling gothic thriller by the author of the critically acclaimed ‘A Good and Happy Child’ When frightening and tragic events from t...
This book has been like pulling teeth to get me to finish it. I have pushed this book aside for other books because this book, while the premise is good, never quite rose to keep my interest. Yet I could never put it on a could not finish shelf. I guess I expected more from this book than what it de...
I certainly didn't expect a Lord Byron-based horror story, but I wasn't disappointed that it happened! My main issue with this was the narrative point of view, which was limited omniscient but didn't really mimic the way a teenage boy would think (at least I don't know any that would think about a s...
Starting a new school is never easy but when the school is across the ocean, is exclusive, and has a 400-year-old history, the rituals and adjustments a new student faces is even more daunting. This is what faces Andrew Taylor as he prepares to cross the threshold of his new private school, The Harr...
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