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The Haunted Forest Tour
by James A. Moore, Jeff Strand
dark
Not my usual read - but I've been trying to stick to 'spooky' for October, and my son saw this recommended and was giving it a go, so I figured I would as well. Unfortunately my KU subscription just ended ... I would have liked to have the text for reference (but didn't feel like paying $4, ebook not at the library, although the audio was).
But seriously ... have these characters not seen Jurassic Park? Don't know KNOW at some point something like this (taking a motorized tram, even with wonderful safety features) through a supernatural forest (it erupted overnight, taking out a town, killing many) filled with every sort of monster imaginable ... is going to go wrong?
3rd person/past tense ... the POV shifts through several characters. Starting in the prologue (when the trees first appear, it's Mike's story ... until Mike is no more. Throughout the book, several characters are followed right up until their destructive demise (a recent read [book:Follow the River|138872] - historical fiction based on true events, did the same thing, switching 3rd person POVs through to death during an Indian attack). Once the chapters begin (no headings, just #s) there is 30-something/divorced Christopher, he's one of the main characters, going on the tour with his mother. There is Mark - who was very annoying with his sexual thoughts about his coworker while reminding himself he's married, seriously, this was SO overdone and irritating - who works as a cryptozoologist in the Haunted Forest. There is the POV of Tommy ... just six years old (the narration and writing of these sections did feel very young). There are more POVs, it was a tad challenging to keep track of everyone. There was a character named Lee Burgundy, and my sons had Anchorman on a little too recently (Ron Burgundy) and that's all I could think about anytime they said the full name (which was a lot - wish I had a Kindle copy to check).
Lots of blood and gore and bodies being torn apart by every monster imaginable. Through in some demons and selling your soul ... I think I got a little lost here (could have used the Kindle for re-reading clarification, it's too much trouble to try to find spots in audio to relisten). Some proFanity as well. Confusing little section when one of the characters starts imagining an "after" (but it's written as real, so readers are "what??"). Words to note - Cerulean, Ululations ... and my son pointed out "penis" ...
Probs not one I'd recommend, but it was fine for Halloween. Trying to imagine it a bit as a movie ... would it be "real" enough to be scary or too over the top that it would be funny?
But seriously ... have these characters not seen Jurassic Park? Don't know KNOW at some point something like this (taking a motorized tram, even with wonderful safety features) through a supernatural forest (it erupted overnight, taking out a town, killing many) filled with every sort of monster imaginable ... is going to go wrong?
3rd person/past tense ... the POV shifts through several characters. Starting in the prologue (when the trees first appear, it's Mike's story ... until Mike is no more. Throughout the book, several characters are followed right up until their destructive demise (a recent read [book:Follow the River|138872] - historical fiction based on true events, did the same thing, switching 3rd person POVs through to death during an Indian attack). Once the chapters begin (no headings, just #s) there is 30-something/divorced Christopher, he's one of the main characters, going on the tour with his mother. There is Mark - who was very annoying with his sexual thoughts about his coworker while reminding himself he's married, seriously, this was SO overdone and irritating - who works as a cryptozoologist in the Haunted Forest. There is the POV of Tommy ... just six years old (the narration and writing of these sections did feel very young). There are more POVs, it was a tad challenging to keep track of everyone. There was a character named Lee Burgundy, and my sons had Anchorman on a little too recently (Ron Burgundy) and that's all I could think about anytime they said the full name (which was a lot - wish I had a Kindle copy to check).
Lots of blood and gore and bodies being torn apart by every monster imaginable. Through in some demons and selling your soul ... I think I got a little lost here (could have used the Kindle for re-reading clarification, it's too much trouble to try to find spots in audio to relisten). Some proFanity as well. Confusing little section when one of the characters starts imagining an "after" (but it's written as real, so readers are "what??"). Words to note - Cerulean, Ululations ... and my son pointed out "penis" ...
Probs not one I'd recommend, but it was fine for Halloween. Trying to imagine it a bit as a movie ... would it be "real" enough to be scary or too over the top that it would be funny?