When Joan’s husband dies, she is forced to move with her young son, Joey, from home to home. But at each home, an evil follows, forcing Joan and Joey to move again and again, hunted.They never know why they’re being hunted. All they can do is run away from the constant threat until, hopefully, it gives up the chase ¿ or they find a savior who can either end it, or help them to fight it forever.”
Good, old-fashioned horror at its best!
This is one intense, twisted, addictive novel laced with just enough pulse-pounding suspense and skin-crawling creep factor to keep you on the edge of your seat! Not only is this very well-written with wonderfully-interesting characters, but the suspense builds at just the right pace as the story unfolds, and I loved the subtle nod to a popular fairy tale. This “unputdownable”story also has one shocking surprise after another along with a major twist at the end.
Just an all-around excellent read! I’m now a confirmed Bliss fan!
Joan is a widow and a mother to young Joseph. Joan must find the two of them a safe, secure home.
PROS:
Widow is a re-imagining of The Three Little Pigs, so there are real pigs, yes, but also humans acting like pigs. When Bliss assigns pig attributes to humans, it’s really creepy and cleverly done.
I enjoyed the dream-like scenes. They weren’t necessarily full of action, but they were descriptive, stuffed with tension, and my favorite scenes.
CONS:
Bliss tells the story in third person omniscient. As I read, I felt pulled out of the story as it jumped around from one character’s thoughts to another (within the same scene). Even though this style of narration didn’t affect the way-cool plot, it was hard to follow at times, so I took off a star for this.
The ending let me down a little bit. I was envisioning, I dunno, maybe Joan busting out in a Teenage Mutant Ninja outfit to save the day. (Okay, not REALLY, but…) That’s not what happened. Still, the ending made sense, so no stars off.
OVERALL:
Scary, dream-like at times, and a fun read (though not perfect). Four surreal stars.
I was happy to win a copy of this eBook in a drawing by Necro Publications. As such, I really wanted to like it. Necro Publications puts out good books and as a sign of my appreciation for winning in the drawing, I wanted to help promote a good book by them. Unfortunately I can’t do that with this book.
The story: after Joan’s husband dies, she has to move with her son Joey to a house they can afford. They find themselves being attacked in the house by a giant pig so they run away and find a new house. Where they again are attacked and again move. Repeat that one more time until they find someone who can help them stop moving.
I could probably try better to sell the book but I couldn’t really find a story. There are the events that happen to some decent enough characters but the story was more of a rambling. I did not see any purpose except to run and survive. I wasn’t really involved enough in their lives to care if they lived or not. Decisions were being made that didn’t make much sense. And events happened that didn’t make much sense. At one point military men arrive in helicopters at Joan’s house for no real reason. She chases them away with a rifle but we never see the military men again. It made no sense to me why they were even in the story. The book did a kind of backwards retelling of The Three Little Pigs. Rather than a wolf destroying a house of straw, then wood, then brick, WIDOW gives us a pig that destroys a house of brick, then wood, then straw. A wolf even makes an appearance near the end of the book. I’m not sure if that was the point of the story or it was just an Easter Egg to discover. I thought at one point there was an understory about humanity being too civilized and that has led to its downfall, people are better away and by themselves. If that was the case, I couldn’t find enough evidence in that understory, plus the ending does not ring true since Joan only survives because she got help from someone else. By the end of the book, I still didn’t really care about the characters and was mostly trying to satisfy my curiosity about how the book would end.