“A vital part of this generation.” -Brian Keene, author of THE COMPLEX and THE RISINGSomething ancient has wormed its way up from the earth….A change has come today.After Michele Cote’s best friend disappears, no one believes her story about the thing responsible for his abduction. Forced to figure out the mystery for herself, Michele encounters terror she has never known, and witnesses the … known, and witnesses the impossible.
When other members of the community begin to change or vanish, Sheriff Shane Davis must look beyond reason in order to stop the evil seeping into this small town. With help from an unlikely source, Sheriff Davis will come face-to-face with the truth.
You can’t destroy what you don’t understand. For the small town of Avalon, Maine, the future is about change…for better or worse.
Becoming is the next horrifying novel from author, Glenn Rolfe.
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This book just captured my attention to the point once I started reading the first chapter, it never let me go all the way to the end!
I felt like I had stepped back into a time when I use to watch the B-horror movies that came on late at night and had kept me awake to all ends of the night.
Jade Lake is the center of the story in this book as it harbors an evil secret in the small town of Avalon located in Maine. Some type of creature is burrowed in the depths of the lake and it invades the town by capturing the citizens turning them into a form of zombies.
This book keeps up the pace from the first chapter to the last chapter. There is quite a bit of nail-biting suspense, twists and turns throughout the story!
There are quite a few characters introduced within the pages of the book, but I was able to keep up with all of them as the story unfolds. I read this book in about a day and a half as I just could not put it down!
There are no spoilers here, so if you want to know about the creature in the lake, then you will have to read the book. Any book that keeps me up most of the night is going to get five stars!
I snagged an e-copy of Becoming, from the author Glenn Rolfe, when he was giving 10 copies away on Twitter for a yet unrecognized Reviewer Appreciation Day (RAD), thought up by author Duncan Swan (debut novel Monstre). What follows below is my honest review, freely given.
I rated this book 4.5 stars.
I don’t know if I want to call this a creature feature, cryptid, or Eldritch type of story; I think all could fit in their own way. Something from deep in the lake is taking people, altering them with an implantation technique reminiscent to the Alien franchise (but so much… moister… gritty yet slimy). Not going to lie, I felt a little gaggy reading those scenes, hats off to the author for painting that disturbing imagery so well. We are also reminded during this tale of transformative horror, that there are truly deplorable horrors committed by seemingly regular people; acts that make the (moist) change of the lake preferable to their current situation.
I felt the townspeople’s reactions and abilities handling this type of infiltration were authentic, the author was not afraid to let a character fall if that’s how things were rolling, no unexpected hidden talents saving them at the last instant. I always appreciate when they are able to let the story go where it needs to go, even if it means character deaths. I have read some works in the past where the lack of death or injury almost takes away from the story because it suspends belief.
Happening in the time of the instant news cycle, I would be down to read a sequel, or even a short story that touches on this town again, and how our modern world would handle an incident such as this. Would it be covered up X-Files style? Would the lake be dragged for the creature? Would YouTube cryptid shows descend to pick apart the mystery and try to get something on film? Maybe a following would grow, waiting for their turn to become? I enjoyed this read, enough that I am thinking of ways to get another book out of it, so if you read it, tell me what you think; creature feature, cryptid, or cosmic deity stuck in a lake?
This book was all concept, but no delivery. The concept was good–mysterious ancient lake-beast turns people into her drones; tries to take over town. The author failed to deliver any real perception of the transformations or why townspeople felt compelled to obey. The heroic main characters were interesting but were not fully developed. The entire book reads like a first attempt but with a lazy author who chose not to let himself fully-experience his own characters. Ultimately, this is a meh.
Hoaky … lost interest halfway through and stopped reading.