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Chargement... Eternal Citypar Nancy Kilpatrick, Michael Kilpatrick
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In the heart of the Canadian woods, the environment is deteriorating. People have moved away and some have disappeared. When Claire Mowatt inherits her aunt's land, she arrives to find that the air, land and water have become polluted since the environmentally correct gated community Eternal City bought the island on Skeleton Lake. Claire knows she should just sell, but something compels her to hesitate. The longer she remains, the more she comes to believe that all is not as it seems with the town or with the residents of the wondrous Eternal City. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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'Eternal City' wasn't bad. The story moves along at a fast clip, and there's some good moments of horror and tension. The writing is pretty basic - it's there to get the story across. It feels almost YA at times... expect for a kind of out-of-place and unexplained scene of attempted rape. (I would have edited it out - not because I object to rape being portrayed in novels, but because it does nothing to forward the plot. The reader expects to get back to it... but it never happens. It's just random.)
Other than that, the story is a little silly, but it's fun. A recently widowed mother and her son travel up north to a small Canadian town by a lake. The mother, Claire, has inherited land from her aunt, and has to decide what to do with it.
The lake has recently become the site of an exclusive time-share resort, and the resort's owner, Virek, is heavily pushing to buy up all the land. However, the short-tempered but attractive hippie single-father neighbor points out to Claire that the resort seems to be ruining the local environment, driving the town's economy into the ground, and is generally shady.
However, the weirdly attractive Virek seems to be making Claire an offer she can't refuse...
But little does she know that the resort is shadier than even local-hippie-guy could have guessed, because, VAMPIRES!
Kilpatrick effectively captures the inherent creepiness of all-inclusive resorts. The vampires are original, cool and spooky. ( )