Helpful Score: 3
Great book. This is the third Laymon book that I have read and probably my favorite so far. Not a lot of blood and gore as some of his books are prone to, but a good solid story that makes you want to keep reading. The book jumps back and forth between present day and the past when the five friends were in college. It tells the story of how the girls met and became friends. They were always 'adventuresome' and made a pact when they graduated that they would meet for a week once a year to go on an adventure together. Only this adventure is more than they planned. Excellent read!!
Helpful Score: 2
They meet for one week every year, five young women, best friends since college, in search of fun and thrills. Each year they choose a different place. This year it's Helen's choice and she chose the Totem Pole Lodge. The Totem Pole Lodge is a deserted resort hotel deep in the woods with gory, shocking past. Helen and the others are in for a nasty surprise.. the resort isn't quite as deserted as they think, and not all the past events are in the past.. the worst are yet to come..
Helpful Score: 2
Typical Laymon - scary, gory with a bit of sex thrown in to titillate. It was ok - nothing really memorable but good escapist fiction.
Helpful Score: 2
Five young alumni of Belmore University are on their annual get-together; this year, the choice of what to do has fallen to Helen, a horror buff, who arranges for the group to camp out at a deserted backwoods lodge where guests were slaughtered by locals several years back. In time, the group encounter various townsfolk, including a witch, whom they must fight for their lives, resulting in a characteristic Laymon bloodbath. The action here is fast but predictable. Of greater interest are the flashbacks, showing first how the gang got together, then detailing their various exploits-taking revenge on some frat guys by setting fire to their house, on a cruel dean by trashing her office, on a nasty homeowner on Halloween by destroying his living room; seducing a young male surfer during a foggy nighttime trip along the California coast, etc.
Helpful Score: 2
This is the first "horror" story I have read in a very long time and I was very disappointed. I am not into blood and gore and this book did not have much so that was nice, but the writing was so detailed that I felt like I had to make sure I soaked in every detail because it would be relavent later in the story, it was not, It rarely takes me more than 3 days to read a book, especially one that keeps me interested, but this one has taken me more than 5 days. I lost interest. This book could have been so much better as the plot is interesting and I think it could have been a good 250 page book rather than a long and boring 460 page book. To me it was not worth the effort.
