ACHUKA
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“Never trust
fairy tales.
Any story
that ends
with “They
all lived
happily ever
after” is a
corck. There
are no happy
endings. No
endings,
full stop.
Life goes
on. There’s
always
something
new around
the corner.
You can
overcome
major
obstacles,
face great
danger, look
evil in the
eye and live
to tell the
tale – but
that’s not
the end.”
God of all
things gruesome
and gory, Darren
Shan, returns
with his highly
anticipated
third book in
the Demonata
series;
“Slawter”.
Readers of “Lord
Loss” and “Demon
Thief” will be
familiar with
the story of
Grubbs Grady
whose family has
been decimated
by an
unfortunate
inherited trait…
“Slawter”
sees Grubbs and
his uncle
Dervish visiting
the set of
horror movie
producer David A
(more correctly
Davida) Haym’s
latest cinematic
epic. Frustrated
by obvious
simulations of
monsters, Haym
has resolved to
avoid such
falsity in this
work-in-progress.
Shan delights
in pushing ideas
to the absolute
extremity, his
demons are
bizarre
apparitions with
fire in their
eyes and snakes
in their
bellies. A
burlesque romp
about
movie-making,
there are few
surprises in
this story’s
subtleties and
narrative
nuances are
pretty much
non-existent…
Despite this
“Slawter”
remains
curiously
compelling, the
interplay
between the
over-arching
story and the
meta-narrative
of the movie
creates that
level of verve
and vitality
that Shan’s
readers expect
as standard. The
movie dimension
to the novel is
entirely
convincing as
the prose is
incredibly
visual making
this a perfect
book to entice
less confident
or keen readers
who will be left
with a murderous
appetite for
more...
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