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от ранните романи на де Линт писан под псевдонима Самюел Кей, с който авторът подписва помрачните си истории. Действието се развива Нюфорд, но в книгата, нетипично, няма свръхестествени елементи.
Рейчъл е красива млада жена, току що развела се с агресивния си съпруг, който все още я тормози въпреки ограничителната заповед. В опит да преподреди живота си от нулата попада под погледа на воайор психопат. Той е обсебен от нея и пречуква всеки който я разстройва по някакъв начин, започвайки от бившия ѝ и стигайки до брутални крайности, като да пребие и запали сервитьора случайно полял я с кафе. В един момент става ясно, че нито приятелите, нито полицията са способни да ѝ помогнат, тя трябва сама да се оправи с проблема.
Тук все още неошлайфаният стил на Чарлз де Лин вече загатва за магията на следващите му произведения. Похватите му на писане, които не спират да ме изумяват, отново са водещи в повествованието. Множество разказващи герои, включително второ и третостепенни сцени преигравани през очите на няколко души дълбоко социални теми, почти невинно вплетени в сюжета. Дори в недоизпипаните неща се вижда чара на обещаващия начинаещ автор.
Книгата е напрегнат и мрачен трилър, което не е моята бира. Все пак ме завладя точно с тези си елементи. Увлича те и те кара да подскачаш и да се тревожиш с и за героите. Има добре описани моменти на насилие и едно страхотно преследване с коли, успява и доста успешно предполагам да влезе в ума на психопата. Няма порнографски сцени, което лично за мен е плюс, обикновено в жанра има задължително поне една, много често плясната колкото да е там.
Статистиката за насилието над жените в Щатите ми дойде малко не на място, знам защо е вътре цялото произведение се върти около това но тук де Линт все още не е развил инструментите си за ангажиране на общественото внимание, за разлика от следващите си книги. Главната героиня е пълна коза, на моменти чак на мен ми идваше да я ошамара.
Добър роман, може някой друг да го хареса повече, аз останах леко разочарован, а знаех какво да очаквам от ревютата на другите. Pretty good, although I find it weird that Charles DeLint felt the need to create a pseudonym just to write a book outside his usual genre.
It was even set in the same place and mentioned some of the same characters, I'm not sure I'd even consider it horror, maybe psychological drama or possibly suspense One of his darker stories, more of a horror than a fantasy.

But well worth the read, Creepy, scarey, frustrating and altogether human, . . another great read.stars

Rachel has just gotten out of an

abusive relationship, but her husband doesnt want to let go.
She has a job and only a couple of good friends to help her out, Little does she know, she also has an “admirer” a peeping tom, really who will come to her “rescue” when she needs it.
But, from his perspective, the perfectly beautiful Rachel will need to be “tested” herself,

Ok, I tried to keep that somewhat vague, as the blurb on the book doesnt say a whole lot, so I didnt want to give anything away.
This is one of the books de Lint wrote as Samuel Key, a pseudonym he took to distinguish his darker works from his fantasy.
It was told in the third person, but the reader got to know more about what was going on, as we did follow a few different characters, than the characters knew, themselves.
Certainly by the end of the book, it was a pageturner, keeping me on the edge of my seat, wanting to keep reading to know what would happen! I really really liked this one! Of all Charles De Lint's works, I think I prefer the books published under Samuel M.
Key. They're darker, more raw. The fear is palpable, which I find delicious, Definitely good for a day when you have nothing to do, because you wont want to put it down or sleep alone.
Creepy but oh so good! I was surprised that the author decided to write under another name just because the book is considered outside his usual genre.
Yes, it deals with some pretty horrific subject matter but it's done in such a way that doesn't really seem terribly disturbing.
Overall, the book was so preachy that it drew me out of the story and thus took away a lot of the emotional reaction I think the author was going for.
I think he could have spent some more time connecting the reader to the protagonist instead of constantly jumping between characters in an effort to be dramatic and suspenseful.

I didn't think this book was terrible, It kept me reading and I did want to find out what would happen next, but in the end it fell flat.
A decent book with singularly odd for de Lint no supernatural elements to it at all,

It was actually better for their lack, which surprised me, considering that the spiritual and mythic elements of de Lint's stories are typically my favorite pieces of them.


This one is good, Very good, and well worth the read, This novel, originally published under the pseudonym Samuel Key, is not really an urban fantasy, although it is set in Newford.
It is instead a thriller, focused on a woman, Rachel, and two psychopathic men who are obsessed with her.
The first man is her exhusband, who is a stereotypical wife abuser, He's nuts, but his craziness is pretty easy to understand, The second man goes by many names and is truly disturbed, He's a serial killer who believes that Beauty is a goddess who has taken human form and that it is his mission in life to find her and to awaken her.
He believes Rachel is that woman and he wants to release Beauty from inside her for the world to acknowledge and worship.
To release the pure shining light of Beauty, he will have to slice her open, . . and if she bleeds mere human blood, she is not Beauty personified, but a lie, . . and not worthy to live,

Rachel is trying to rebuild her life and her psyche after escaping her marriage and changing jobs.
She's learning to live alone and make new friends, She rediscovering her inner artist and her backbone, Despite sometimescrippling fear and selfdoubt, Rachel is reclaiming herself, And she only has to survive the two psychopaths who think they love her,

The story is plausible and wellwritten, There were some police and dispatch radio lingo that rang false to me, but most readers don't have my background as a dispatcher, so those things may fly over their heads without ruffling their hair.
For me, though, those little things pulled me right out of the tension of the moment and made me wish de Lint had gotten a dispatcher to be a Beta reader.
As the book was written in the mids, it's too late for that now, but I'd be happy to volunteer for any future works.
. . or for any reissues de Lint wants vetted,

Those moments aside, the book is a strong treatment of obsession and abuse, with a spotlight on society's role in perpetuating an impossible ideal of female beauty.
. . and on the effects of that ideal on actual women and men in the real world, Heavy topics, but de Lint handles them well, These themes recur throughout the Newford series and it's clear that de Lint finds them to be important to the modern human condition.
He's a feminist, a humanist and perhaps a realist who wants to be an idealist, Through his writings, he attempts to understand the darkness inside men and explores the magic inside acts of creation.
In this nonmystical book, the real magic is in Rachel's creation of her new life, despite the men who are trying to take that power from her.
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