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Chargement... The Chill: A Novel (original 2020; édition 2021)par Scott Carson (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Chill par Scott Carson (2020)
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  booklover3258 | Apr 3, 2024 |   That's all this is. Oh, there's added supernatural stuff but it is just another disaster movie in book form. Decent enough fluff reading. But nothing new. (  ) pacbox | Jul 9, 2022 | The characters are well rounded, and the story line moves quickly but there’s not much of a mystery to what’s happening. Just odd happenings all connecting each other. The action in the storyline was entertaining. I continued to read because I was curious, and it was a fast read. However, the ending was a complete bummer. One of those anti-climactic, you knew what was coming, and how it would end. It was more like the disaster happens and then the author just doesn’t know what to do with any of the characters anymore, so he stops writing. I wonder if he has plans to write a sequel. It’s worth a read, but I don’t think it’s top on my lists or one that I would read again. (  ) OMBWarrior47 | Oct 15, 2021 | I think I was expecting something different from this book. It's definitely more of a thriller than a horror which for me is not as good. I think it was only marked as horror because there are ghosts in the story, but it wasn't really scary at all. I found it a bit boring. It had its moments, but in general, the book's pace was really slow and I feel ended a bit on an anti-climactic note. ( ) starslight86 | Jul 20, 2021 | ) Lemeritus | Jun 9, 2021 |
THE CHILL is fully deserving of every word of the pre-publication buzz that it has received. Part of the advance accolades is due to the well-known thriller writer who is using the nom de plume of Scott Carson. The reason for this (to my understanding) is the utilization of supernatural/horror elements that are absent from this established author’s customary work. Regardless of the authorship, here we have a memorable, haunting feast of supernatural literature.... Reading Scott Carson’s The Chill gave me shivers like the ones I got when I first read Stephen King’s The Shining. Set in a remote town in upstate New York, the novel starts ordinarily enough, with a fractured relationship between father and son, but swiftly cascades into a story about vengeful ghosts and a cataclysm generations in the making.... Carson includes plenty of factual exposition about real New York reservoirs and tunnel systems, sections that could have been dry and boring were it not for his deep characterizations and a pervading sense of doom. The result is a fast-paced, frenzied tale of survival against both natural and supernatural forces that will leave you gasping for air. In the pseudonymous Carson’s debut, something uncanny has awakened in the swelling depths of upstate New York’s Chilewaukee Reservoir, aka “The Chill.” It’s been nearly 80 years since the town of Galesburg was flooded to build the Chilewaukee, and the town didn’t go easy. A small contingent of people rebelled, leading to shocking acts of violence. Since then, an otherworldly evil has been waiting for the right time to take revenge against those responsible for destroying the town, which, on a clear day, can still be glimpsed just under the surface of the Chill....The premise brims with creepy potential, and readers will learn more than they ever thought they wanted to know about dams and the challenges of harnessing a relentless force of nature that is often taken for granted. However, the meandering plot and muddled mythology eventually give way to scenes from a disaster film, with a thinly fleshed-out cast failing to provide the necessary emotional heft. Carson suspends disbelief through plausible characterizations and convincing descriptive passages, especially of the water tunnel system that feeds New York City. Fans of Michael Koryta’s horror thrillers such as The Ridge will be more than satisfied. Blending myth with actual facts, Scott Carson has woven a story using one of nature’s most awful disasters combined with human greed and unconcern for the safety of his fellow man. Adding a supernatural element is icing on the cake. The Chill would’ve made a great disaster movie back when that genre of motion picture was popular. As it is, it makes for a read that is—no pun intended—chilling. Such an event could, and has, happened often in the history of human endeavor. The Chill is a great tale, not of man’s inhumanity to man, but of man’s inhumanity to nature. Now, nature, with some supernatural assistance, strikes back.
"Far upstate, in New York's ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that's what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America's founding, were forced from their land, but they didn't move far, and some didn't move at all... Now, a century later, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known. An inspector assigned to oversee the dam, dangerously neglected for decades, witnesses something inexplicable. It turns out that more than the village was left behind in the waters of the Chill when it was abandoned. The townspeople didn't evacuate without a fight. A dark prophecy remained, too, and the time has come for it to be fulfilled. Those who remember must ask themselves: who will be next? For sacrifices must be made. And as the dark waters begin to inexorably rise, the demand for a fresh sacrifice emerges from the deep."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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