Adam Vine

I had a hard time getting into this story at first, the purposeful leaving out of place they were in when they were in the real world and using City or Country kept throwing me off. It felt jarring to me, and if it had been something I just picked up to listen to I may have stopped. Which would have been sad because it is a fantastic book and once I got past that I got into it very fast and missed a few bedtimes.


The Night Country seems to be such an interesting place, I found I enjoyed that story a lot more when they were there than I did when they were in the real world. Which makes sense because I am quite fond of fantasy worlds. Plus the characters just seemed a lot more relateable in the Night Country than they did in the real world.


When Daniel and Kashka took the tour of the concentration camp I found the descriptions to be particularly vivid and disturbing. It was excellently written, as was the rest of the book, but that particular scene will stay with me for a long time.


I look forward to the second installment of Corruption.… (plus d'informations)

Adam Vine’s Lurk is a great little horror/suspense novel about one of the most terrifying things you could ever imagine: Friends. Obviously, there’s more to Lurk than just that; the book follows narrator Drew Brady, college student extraordinaire, as he and his housemates and friends are dragged into a dangerous mystery with the discovery of an old box of polaroid photos underneath the earthen basement floor. There is a supernatural element to the horror, of course, but two other specters that loom forebodingly in the background are the destructive ravages of time and the complexity of the human psyche. There are several times throughout the novel that I felt it was treading into mundane young adult novel morality lesson territory, but each time it was just Vine’s masterful manipulation of the common tropes waiting to pull the rug our from under me. While some of the characters may appear cliché or stereotypical on occasion, they eventually reveal themselves to be complicated – and more importantly, believable – individuals, providing a greater weight to the sense of dread and impending horrors promised throughout the tale. I personally feel that the supernatural elements of the novel could have been diminished or discarded altogether to leave a great psychological thriller, but that is based more on personal preference than the author’s final product. Lurk might not exactly break new ground, but there is enough lurking within it to remain an unforgotten memory buried beneath the earthen floor of your subconscious.… (plus d'informations)