Five "Thumping Pumpkin Man" Stars
Wild and Spooky!
A small taste of what lies within:
Rix Usher is informed that his father is not well and that he needs to come home to Usherland so that all the family is gathered before his father passes on. Rix doesn't really want to go home as he doesn't want anything to do with his father or his family as they are crazy loonies and Rix has been writing horror books under a pen name as he didn't want any problems to arise from his family.
Rix does decide to head home though as he feels that he needs to wrap up loose ends, but things go slowly nutso for him as he remembers from his past a being called the Pumpkin Man and a building on the property called the Lodge. Rix hooks up with a local newspaper reporter (Raven) and as he starts learning more than he wants to know what really lies within his family tree, Rix has to make sure that he doesn't descend into madness as what is pulsing throughout Usherland is pure evil in its truest form!
That is about all I can give on a taste without giving away spoilers so if you want to know more about this book, then go read it!
Thoughts:
This was a great book that took a little while to get into it because of some world and character building within the story but it finally slowly drew me into the world of the Usher family.
This was my second book by author, Robert McCammon and I can see why so many readers love to read his work. The writing style is easy to read and the words flow along smoothly. There is nothing disjointed within the story to even cause me to deviate away from what is happening - it is like smooth as silk with capturing what is going on with the story as it unfolds with scary suspense.
The book started out a little slow but picks up speed after the 50% mark and then once I hit the 70% mark the speed increased to overdrive which I read the last 30% within a few hours! Suspense, tension, spookiness, and crazy intensity was folded into the story in the last half of the book where I was wanting to munch on something!
This was definitely another great book by this author and I will be putting it on my favorites shelf. Looking forward to reading more works by this author!
Attached is the author, Robert McCammon, profile page from Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5244478.Robert_McCammon
Attached is the author, Robert McCammon, profile page from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-R-McCammon/e/B000AP7UZS
Attached is my review from Goodreads:
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