Others (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 159)

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Others is a solid horror. Dis is a good protagonist; complex, sympathetic but flawed, and his voice is entertaining. The side characters are distinctive and just as entertaining which is a big plus for me (unfortunately, the love interest was the least interesting character, which took away from the romance subplot). The mystery is intriguing and Dis works hard to unravel it rather than passively having things happen to him as the plot unrolls. This scholarly, joyously beautiful volume will serve as a definitive reference source on fauvism. A sweeping survey of fauvist color-drenched landscape painting, the study follows Henri Matisse, Continue reading » London in 1948 is devastated by a Nazi-created hemorrhagic plague in versatile British horror novelist Herbert's (The Ghosts of Sleath) frisky foray into splatterpunk alternative historical fiction. Continue reading » Herbert's latest novel begins as a rather taut political thriller/horror hybrid, but it begins to deteriorate about halfway through, becoming increasingly poorly paced and confused. The story Continue reading »

Others by James Herbert - Publishers Weekly Others by James Herbert - Publishers Weekly

The theme of redemption is echoed throughout the novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed following the character's journey and learning about the fate of the Others.His investigation takes him to a mysteriously located place called Perfect Rest. It is supposed to be a nursing home for the elderly . . . But is it? Others ( A Song of Ice and Fire), supernatural creatures in the fictional world of George R. R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire The findings of the research , the results of these studies were shared to the other medical or scientific research units around UK, if not the world. Hundreds of malformed babies born each year, infants so badly deformed with a little chance of survival were only to be secreted away to become valuable commodities of research. The first is pretty much an enjoyment killer for me, and that's a heavy reliance on dreams. Dreams, to me, are just big pauses in the story, where crap happens that has little effect on the story proper, and are usually inserted to cause doubt and unease in the readers' minds. The only time I've enjoyed dream inserts are when they have a real and lasting impact on the characters. Think Nightmare on Elm Street. So, that was, aside from the opening, turn off number one for me.

Others by James Herbert - Pan Macmillan

After the death of her husband Gerald, Shelly became overwrought, went a little bit crazy with grief.She was afraid of being alone in the world,and the thought of finding her long lost son seemed to provide her some comfort.To be honest, the plotting and pacing of this novel was just kind of bizarre. As though Herbert knew how to end it, but didn't have much story to throw before that ending that took up a solid final quarter—if not a full third—of the end of the book. So even though I am a HUGE horror fan, this was my first James Herbert I believe. I did enjoy the way he wrote, I think he has a deft skill in providing the situation and characters in a detailed way. However he is somewhat clumsy in structure and the book was needlessly long. Saying that I did enjoy it, even if it started to take a troubling path towards the end. An exploration into the depths of human depravity, where science crosses into sadism, in a world where broken souls in twisted flesh struggle along the path of pain towards the brass ring of redemption and peace.