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Chargement... The House of Tonguespar James Dashner
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book is about folklore, generational curses, and a father's love for his children. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It starts strong, gets a little weak in the middle, but upswings and ends on a pretty strong note. While the plot is overall pretty good, it was the relationship between the father and his children that pulled me in. It was nice to read about a father who loves his children more than life itself, is not afraid to show that, and will do anything to protect them. ( ) It is my first time I am reading a book by James Dashner. I had high hopes with the book, The House of Tongues. Although, the plot opens up with a strong narrative of death and madness. The story slowly moves itself upwards with some interesting characters. But, when I reached halfway it seemed like some things were unnecessarily injected which failed to hold my interest in the book. Although, the climax was like one of the psychopath movies, but by that time I lost interest. May be the book was not for me. I would like to give the book 3 stars. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me an opportunity to read and review the book. The House of Tongues by James Dashner My rating: 5 of 5 stars #FirstLine - Prologue ~ I am an old man. This book…is really something and I LOVED it. It starts off in a way that grabbed my attention immediately. The story is told to you, the reader. You feel like you are sat down and get to hear, first hand, the horrors that took place back in the day and the horrors that re-emerged many years later. I was sucked in. I could literally not put it down and when life forced me to do so I was still thinking about the story. It is so beautifully told, which may seem weird for a book in the horror genre. There is is just something about the choices of words, the descriptions, the timing of jokes, the storytelling, the dialogue, the fleshing out past and present. It was truly brilliant. This book is also scary, really scary. I could not stop thinking about it. I dreamt about it several nights. I read this book thinking about what I would have done as a teen and as a parent. Both scared me to my core!!! It is probably one of my all time favorite YA horror/thriller/mystery books. I will not soon forget this book. I want everyone to read it so I can talk to everyone about it! So if you do read it, which I HIGHLY recommend, please come back and tell me your thoughts. I need to know. I REALLY need to know!!! So don’t leave me hanging, please! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The author of the New York Times best-selling Maze Runner series leads us on a dark journey of generational horror as we visit The House of Tongues. David Player has spent 30 years trying to forget the traumas of his childhood. The threats, the kidnappings, the murders. The imagined curses of a people born centuries earlier, passed from father to son, mother to daughter, generation to generation. Its climax came in human form, a monster of a man, one of the most notorious serial killers the nation has ever seen: Pee Wee Gaskins. And Gaskins had a particular hatred for the Player family, then for David, himself, who barely escaped those years with his own life intact. Now David is back, his four children in tow, visiting his parents' home, a place he has learned to cherish despite the evils that haunted his younger days. But no sooner does he return than a stranger visits their doorstep, the son of Pee Wee Gaskins. In a terrifying display, right in front of the kids, the man utters threats until he chokes on his own tongue, sparking a series of events that drag David and his family back into the days of curses and murders, onto a path of unimaginable terror, all too familiar. That path leads to an old gothic tower in the woods, a place David had blocked from his memory, a house of horrors both past and present. The House of Tongues. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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