Little Heaven

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Cutter (The Deep) portrays three very damaged people trying to do good in this disturbing tale, which is elevated by illustrations by Adam Gorham. The illustrations throughout this book were a really nice way of helping to visualise how messed-up these creatures were. The pace did pick up a bit but there were still random thoughts/remembrances the characters have that continued to make it drag to me.

After reading two of Cutter’s books and being absolutely floored by both, I think it’s safe to say that he is a true master at his craft.Because in no small way, Little Heaven feels like a neo-Western, the story of three hired guns who get brought in to rescue a boy in distress from a hostile compound, only to end up far out of their depth as horrors emerge. rounded up because the parts i liked were quite good indeed, and the parts i didn't like are probably good if you are not a defective reader, and while i wasn't scared-scared, there are some excellent creepy moments.

i really wish this style of horror worked for me, because it keeps me from reading so many things other people seem to enjoy, but it's a stumbling block i cannot overcome because i am defective. No I don’t give 2 stars often, and I was so crushed about giving it to this one because I really wanted to like it! He hit upon so many of your typical horror tropes while snazzing it up in the Cutter style only he can produce. Another year has passed, delivering us a terrible bounty of new horror books to terrify us on quiet nights.The bulk of the story takes place in the 1960s, but the novel begins in 1980, introducing our dubious band of heroes long after their ordeal in Little Heaven. Interestingly, the most believable thing in the novel is the strange creature in the forest and that is because we are given a creepy and scary glance at his development in the prologue. And while this is usually a good thing in the stories I read, it almost went a little bit too far for me. To begin with, other than Jim Jones Reverend Amos, I dug the characters and they had pretty awesome chemistry with each other too .

Now that I'm examining Little Heaven, a book that is surely entertaining but lifts quite a lot of its material from King's cannon, I'm growing a bit leery of Cutter's ability to create original works of horror wholecloth.

It got to the point where I was having a hard time reading this book in the evening because I was so freaked out by what I was reading.

But what’s going on the compound itself is no less horrific, as children begin disappearing, and people turn the other way, never wanting to acknowledge what’s happening. The body horror violence just keeps getting worse and worse, and every once in awhile we’d be treated to some actual visuals thanks to an extremely talented illustrator…. The characters were a rather misanthropic group of misfits that took a while to warm up to, and Little Heaven was essentially developed from Jim Jones’ cult (even the author admits to this) but I had enough interest in this novel to read it until the end. A group of unlikely mercenaries — a black Englishman named Ebenezer, a female bounty hunter named Minerva, and a rough hired gun named Micah — are all thrown together by happenstance thanks to a drug dealer who wanted two of them to kill the third.As most of you know, I tend to enjoy everything dark and creepy, so this element of the book worked extremely well for me. This was a really interesting feature, especially because there was no real rhyme or reason to when an illustration would be inserted. The fact that the book takes place in the 1960’s and 80’s is irrelevant; this feels like the story of hard men (and women) on the verge of normal civilization. A good blogging friend mentioned today I should really lower my rating as much fits as this book gave me and you know what, I think she's right.