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Book Review of Silk

Silk
Silk
Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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They are twentysomething misfits...society's castoffs...urban strays looking for a thrill. Something cheap, anything to get them throught he night. Only their music is different. Sleepwalking on caffeine, nicotine, and and drugs, they wait out the dawn in the death-rock clubs and shadowy back alleys.
Into their midst comes the enigmatic Spyder. A patron saint of the alienated and lost, she invites them into her mesmerizing world of ritual and cermeony, blood and fire...a realm of vengeful gods, of exiled spirits harboring the dark secrets of Hell - and the darker secrets of Heaven. Is she their guardian angel, forcing them to face their greatest fears even as she battles to save their ravaged souls? Or a much more terrifying force sent not to redeem but to destroy?