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Rain tells the story of a small town boy who grew up and left that small town, never returning until after both his parents have passed away, and the life he's built for himself starts to crumble.
Jacob Logan moves back to his hometown five years after his mother's death, to try and collect himself so that he can start out again.
He figures that it would be a nice change of pace, and being home would provide an environment for him to regain his footing.


However, once there, it seems as if the house he grew up in, and the town itself, is reluctant to let this prodigal son out of its clutches again.
His car is stolen. His belongings are lost in

an accident, I'm surprised his phone line isn't cut within the firstpages, . . And the amazing thing is that it takes Jacob quite a few days to figure out that not everything is hunky dory in Maryfield.
Once he does, I had quite a few "d'oh!" moments with him but then they say girls are smarter than boys, ha ha!.
You know those momentsthe ones where you're saying to the character, "What're you doing No, don't go there!! Aargh, too late!!"

Firefly Rain grips you from the first few pages, and has you in that grip until the very last word.
There are no wasted words hereevery single one either contributes to character development or building suspense.
"D'oh!" moments notwithstanding, Firefly Rain is a satisfying read indeed, acob Logan is at a crossroads with his life in Boston, Hoping to find a sense of direction, he returns to his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to take up residence in his childhood home years after his parents deaths.
He is alone in an isolated house but this is exactly what he needs, . .

You know this cannot turn out well, There is the odd discovery that fireflies avoid the property landing on the Logan land is equal to death.
Jacob's car is stolen and the strange Officer Hanratty is one minute concerned and the next minute angry at Jacob.
Carl, the hired caretaker, is creepy, sneaky, and plain mean and others in the town are acting very strange.
And of course, there are the bumps and crashes in the night, Carl knew his parents, especially his mother, was hurt by his infrequent visits but he cannot imagine they are behind these chilling events.


sitelinkRichard Dansky has created an entertaining, oldfashioned haunted house/ghost story in sitelinkFirefly Rain.
The story is suspenseful and I was intrigued after just a few pages, There are moments of overt scares but the book is at it's best when there is the slow build to what seems like a small outcome.
Jacob's character evolves from trying to find earthbound explanations for all of his odd experiences to accepting there may be supernatural forces at work.
The other characters are also interesting are they really that accommodating and pleasant The house and the land have a large role in the story and Mr.
Dansky's descriptions of the rooms, yard and family grave add to the eerie feeling,

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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, especially haunted house stories, But in this novel, nothing ever actually scared me at all, The author completely failed at creating a spooky or even eerie atmosphere, The house itself was mundane and poorly described a list of the house's physical attributes, without anything to build interest in it or tension around it.
The characters were cardboard cutouts with weird or contradictory motivations they're supposed to be trying to get him to stay in town so.
. . they all act like total assholes to him Um, what, The book creates a parallel between the experiences of the main character and the experiences of his father, without ever giving a reason for the experiences.
The mystery of why the main character needs to stay in town is never revealed it seems to be because his mother missed him WHAT So she made one guy promise to make sure her son came home and stayed, and as a result he and.
. . um, a bunch of other people who had NOT made that promise also ended up having to keep the promise and couldn't die until they did WHAT And it's not like everything has to make sense in a horror novel, but novels do need to have some kind of internal consistency, some driving force that at least makes sense to itself maybe we're horrified at the logic, but there does need to be internal logic.
This book lacks even an attempt at that,

Beyond the utter lack of coherent plot, atmosphere, or believable or even likable characters with dimension, the reveal of the Firefly Rain's underlying message left me at a loss.
The main character is a bad son because he grew up and moved away and started his own life That's what kids are supposed to do.
And as a result of doing what kids are supposed to do, this guy is now stuck in a town where apparently everybody is nuts, for reasons we are never told, and there's some wild swing at a firefly metaphor that seems to mean he can never go to heaven, or maybe he has to stay and do the same things that were done to him, to the next poor sucker I don't even know.
It's all incredibly stupid.

The reviewers who compared this writer to Stephen King have done Stephen King a grave disservice.
Seriously, he should litigate.
Maybe it's me but this book did nothing for me, It seemed like it was trying to be a lot like Stephen King, but never quite got up to speed I ended up as confused as the hero, who never quite got what was going on until the very, very end and even then I'm not sure either of us understood.
This seems more like "homage to" derivative writing than anyone with a really new, creative idea.
Not to be confused with Firefly Lane, Richard Danskys debut novel Firefly Rain is about the prodigal son coming back to his childhood home in some back woods town in North Carolina although he just calls it Carolina.
His business in Boston has failed, his parents are dead, but the old homestead is just waiting for him.


So, yeah, Jacob Logan goes home to Maryfield, His childhood isnt quite as he remembered it, For one thing, the fireflies he used to catch on his property now dont seem to want to come onto Logan land they stop just at the border of his property and if they cross onto it, they die.
For another, his house is creepy doors open and bang shut toy soldiers turn up where they shouldnt be.
Carl, the old guy who Jacob has been paying to look after the property after his parents died, is weirdly antagonistic.
Then someone steals his car,

Firefly Rain is supposed to be scary, In fact, Publishers Weekly called it “Disturbingremarkable” and Library Journal called it “Classic horrora tightly paced tale of mystery and terror.
”

I call it hokum,

Nothing was scary about this book, At all. Except perhaps the way the characters spoke,

“I need someone down here whom I can trust,” Jacob says to his friend Jenna.
“Im spooked Jenna, spooked bad, and I need someone who can watch my back until I can get my head screwed on straight.
”

Then theres the scene where Jacob chases his stolen car up and down a dirt road until he finally collapses in the ditch.
In his slippers. In the rain.

And then theres the convoluted denouement where all the men of Maryfield show up on the property because of some wacky promise they made to Jacobs mother.
I didnt really get itbut by then, I didnt really care,
Jacob Logan left his home town of Maryfield, North Carolina as soon as he could and never looked back.
Now, Jacob is all grown up, Jacob has returned home. Both his parents have passed away, It isnt long that Jacob has been back before he starts experiencing weird and unexplainable things.
There is an evil force in the house and surrounding the property, Jacob can remember chasing after the fireflies that were around his home, when he was a little boy.
It appears that the fireflies have something more to worry about then Jacob, Every time they get too close to the house, they die, Jacob must figure it out before the evil presence that is killing the fireflies consumes him.


I so missed getting on the right train that everyone else seems to have booked a ticket to with this book.
When I read Mr. Cleggs comment about comparing Mr, Dansky to Stephen King, I knew I had to get my hands on a copy of Firefly Rain to see for myself.
Unfortunately, Firefly Rain ended up all wet, This book started out alright but I barely got a third of the way into it and that is when it fizzled.
Neither the characters nor the story line grabbed me and made me want more,
Dansky makes the ghosts of the past, those ghosts inside all of us, into real things.
It's terrifying, and masterfully done, But don't go into this looking for an actionpacked plot, It's a character study, wrapped in an homage to North Carolina, The author did an excellent job of depicting the contrasts between rural and urban, Southern and Northern, and the protagonist Jacob caught in the middle.
Jacob did seem a bit of the bumbling idiot, but I think that was by design.
He was out of place, out of sync, with everything, Anyone who's ever suffered a string of problems lost jobs, deaths, financial woes, health issues knows how easy it is for everything to slip out of one's grasp.
People who are miserable or confused are often forgetful, disoriented, prone to accidents, Add to that an identity crisis, the conflict between where you come from and where you want to go, and dredge up childhood memories, to boot it's no wonder Jacob is a hapless hero.
He's even caught between two women, embodiments of his conflicting halves Jenna from the North, and Adrienne from the South.


The novel is beautiful and slowpaced, just like rural North Carolina, It builds an exquisite sense of dread, The author's voice is smooth and easy to read, made me feel like I was floating in an inner tube down a gentle stream.
Mentally. So to speak. I was impressed with the way he wove the dread of returning home to which many of us can relate with the supernatural dread of the absent fireflies, mysterious tin soldiers, and doors that open and close of their own accord.
This is not inyourface scary horror, which is fine by me, but it was just scary enough that I had a hard time sleeping the night I began reading it.
Didn't scare me a second night, though, because I finished it the very next day, Couldn't put it down. .