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Enjoy, January 31, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from Atlanta, GA
Your mentor, your surrogate father, one of your closest friends has a secret--one big enough to destroy all of humankind. Did you really know him at all? This dilemma threatens to overwhelm a young medical examiner in Miami. In the wake of her mentor's suicide, following a string of strange deaths, Dr. Angelica Hunter is left with an unfathomable mystery, but she must not wait to act. The fate of the world is the hands of Dr. Hunter and Detective Eric Brandon whose job it is to investigate these deaths.
What unfolds from this point is a captivatingly written story of suspense that holds you in its grip until the very end. Pursued by a god/monster who wants nothing more than to incinerate the bodies and souls of everyone in his path, Dr. Hunter and Detective Brandon must find a way to stop him before he reaches full strength. Each page holds a new struggle and demands your full attention. Will the doctor and detective be able to save themselves, much less the world?
Caution: Choose wisely where you decide to read this book. I read the entire second half of the book in one sitting while at my favorite hang out. Mesmerized by the story, I couldn't leave until I had finished.
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BETWEEN KING and KOONTZ FIIND EVAN KINGSBURY!, January 2, 2003
Reviewer: Janie Elizabeth McEachern (see more about me) from Chicago, IL, USA
FIRE & FLESH BY EVAN KINGSBURY is so hot they ought to have sold fire extin&uishers with it, or at least placed a "surgeon general's warning" on the cover, as it is heart-racingly FAST and mesmerizing, so much so I almost had a coronary when reading it on the bus and missing my stop. I took the rest of the day off and finished the book. The creature "smokes people" instaed of camels! Set in India in the opening pages, he/it/whatever the creature is--a mythological snakegod couched securely in the abdomen of not one but two men--seeks atachment, and to this end it travels to Miami where it enjoys an ungodly killing spree amid a godawful heatwave of record breaking temperatures that makes it right at home (like old India week). As it seeks out its "brother snake" --living large as Miami's Chief Medical Examiner, it "smokes" people to both sustain itself and to "learn more" in its quest to "join" with its fleeing other half-self. The story soon develops into one big long, bizzaro chase through hospital corridors, morgues, elevator shafts, parking garages, grocery store freezer units, Miami streets, the Florida Keys,The Everglades, and I won't give away where the chase finally takes us in this breath-taking roller-coaster ride of chaos of carefully constructed point-counterpoint in what at times feels like a "symphony" of terror in which you just know everyone on Earth is doomed but saved, doomed but saved again in repeated cycle. My point is, it's so RARE to find a horror title that doesn't disappoint, that does not resort to alien abductions, governmental conspiracies, black opps. and bald-faced coincidence atop coincidence--a story that doesn't fail the expectations set up in the opening, a story that doesn't fall apart or come apart at the poorly constructed seams we too often find in horror literature. And mark my word, this book, Fire & Flehs by Kingsbury (on the shelf between King and Koontz) is so well written that you can call it "literature" in the true sense of the word, in the tradtion of the best horror writers and some of the early works of Dean Koontz (as in Whispers and Phantoms) or early works of Stephen King (as in Salem's Lot and The Shinning). At the same time it is as fast-paced as an ALIEN film or the Terminator films. I thoroughly enjoyed it and thoroughly recommend it without a single reservation.
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Fire & Flesh, December 30, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from Chicago, IL, USA
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Enjoy, January 31, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from Atlanta, GA
Your mentor, your surrogate father, one of your closest friends has a secret--one big enough to destroy all of humankind. Did you really know him at all? This dilemma threatens to overwhelm a young medical examiner in Miami. In the wake of her mentor's suicide, following a string of strange deaths, Dr. Angelica Hunter is left with an unfathomable mystery, but she must not wait to act. The fate of the world is the hands of Dr. Hunter and Detective Eric Brandon whose job it is to investigate these deaths.
What unfolds from this point is a captivatingly written story of suspense that holds you in its grip until the very end. Pursued by a god/monster who wants nothing more than to incinerate the bodies and souls of everyone in his path, Dr. Hunter and Detective Brandon must find a way to stop him before he reaches full strength. Each page holds a new struggle and demands your full attention. Will the doctor and detective be able to save themselves, much less the world?
Caution: Choose wisely where you decide to read this book. I read the entire second half of the book in one sitting while at my favorite hang out. Mesmerized by the story, I couldn't leave until I had finished.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
BETWEEN KING and KOONTZ FIIND EVAN KINGSBURY!, January 2, 2003
Reviewer: Janie Elizabeth McEachern (see more about me) from Chicago, IL, USA
FIRE & FLESH BY EVAN KINGSBURY is so hot they ought to have sold fire extin&uishers with it, or at least placed a "surgeon general's warning" on the cover, as it is heart-racingly FAST and mesmerizing, so much so I almost had a coronary when reading it on the bus and missing my stop. I took the rest of the day off and finished the book. The creature "smokes people" instaed of camels! Set in India in the opening pages, he/it/whatever the creature is--a mythological snakegod couched securely in the abdomen of not one but two men--seeks atachment, and to this end it travels to Miami where it enjoys an ungodly killing spree amid a godawful heatwave of record breaking temperatures that makes it right at home (like old India week). As it seeks out its "brother snake" --living large as Miami's Chief Medical Examiner, it "smokes" people to both sustain itself and to "learn more" in its quest to "join" with its fleeing other half-self. The story soon develops into one big long, bizzaro chase through hospital corridors, morgues, elevator shafts, parking garages, grocery store freezer units, Miami streets, the Florida Keys,The Everglades, and I won't give away where the chase finally takes us in this breath-taking roller-coaster ride of chaos of carefully constructed point-counterpoint in what at times feels like a "symphony" of terror in which you just know everyone on Earth is doomed but saved, doomed but saved again in repeated cycle. My point is, it's so RARE to find a horror title that doesn't disappoint, that does not resort to alien abductions, governmental conspiracies, black opps. and bald-faced coincidence atop coincidence--a story that doesn't fail the expectations set up in the opening, a story that doesn't fall apart or come apart at the poorly constructed seams we too often find in horror literature. And mark my word, this book, Fire & Flehs by Kingsbury (on the shelf between King and Koontz) is so well written that you can call it "literature" in the true sense of the word, in the tradtion of the best horror writers and some of the early works of Dean Koontz (as in Whispers and Phantoms) or early works of Stephen King (as in Salem's Lot and The Shinning). At the same time it is as fast-paced as an ALIEN film or the Terminator films. I thoroughly enjoyed it and thoroughly recommend it without a single reservation.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Fire & Flesh, December 30, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from Chicago, IL, USA