Garden of Evil by Graham Masterton

Garden of Evil Reviews

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  Alexander Draganov

  Страхотен завършек на поредицата. Греъм надмина себе си. Някои от най-ужасните обитатели на Ада са в този роман. Посланието е много смислено. Много съм доволен, а за повече направо ви пращам на ревюто!
  
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  Fred Klein

  JIM ROOK MEETS PARADISE LOST
  
  If you are familiar with the Jim Rook novels, you basically know what to expect, except that there is more far-reaching destruction in this one than in the previous ones, more along the lines of Masterton's supernatural disaster novels, like BLIND PANIC and MANITOU BLOOD. In this one, Rook's special education students are obsessed with their personal concepts of Paradise, influenced by a weird and sinister student. As usual in Rook novels, strange deaths occur (people painted white and nailed to ceilings or upside down, surrounded by eight white cats), with lots of 911 calls, and Rook investigates, using his own extra-sensory abilities. This is a quick read, perhaps a bit heavy on the biblical stuff, and with a rape scene that I thought was unnecessary (and the forgiving attitude of the victim was definitely not appropriate).
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  Sara

  I love the "Jim Rook" series but this book felt rushed and I didn't enjoy it as much as the other books :(
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  Plum-crazy

  This arrived through my letterbox yesterday afternoon & I've pretty much not put it down since - can't resist a Masterton that I haven't read before!
  
  "Garden of Evil", as the title might suggest, involves the eternal battle between good & evil with the world as we know it at risk. It follows the same formula as other Rook novels but that's not a bad thing as I got...on the whole... just what I expected. Now I don't expect to believe that the events portrayed in this series could ever happen in real life but that's what makes them so readable to my mind, plus the fact that there's always some folklore or mythology mentioned that has me running to Google to see if it's true legend or a figment of Masterton's wonderful imagination (in this case I headed to my "Dictionary of Angels").
  
  As ever I enjoyed this read but one or two things stop it being one of the better ones of the series for me. For a start I could have done without the rather unconvincing zombie chase & there's a rape scene I felt was unwarranted - I feel these are occurring more & more in Masterton's work. Similarly, the slayings here were ...how shall I put it?...more of the outlandish brutal sort that I've come to associate with the Katie Maguire crime series rather than the Rookish ones which, while still deliciously gory, usually have more mysticism behind them.
  
  Overall, a good read but not a great one. The ending, however, has me wondering whether we'll hear from Rook again. I do hope so... :o)
  
  Quote to Remember
  "...there can never be such a thing as a Paradise for all, because one person's Paradise always turns out to be another person's Hell."
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  Boneist

  This was... ok. I think I'd have liked it better if I'd read it, as opposed to listened to the audiobook, because I could have skimmed over the bits of questionable writing - such as why did we need to know precise information about completely irrelevant stuff like the colour of Jim's chinos. And why are the students usually referred to by their full name?
  
  I'd give this 2-and-a-bit stars, but the narration was so bad in places when it came to the accents used for the voices of the different characters (not helped, I'm sure, but the terrible speech writing), it was hilarious!
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  juls

  I absolutely love this book. One of my favourites in this series.
  The comedy and the horror in here is so mixed up that it brings very much of various emotions to the reader.
  My heart has been touched when the girl was rook’s daughter, that crashed me.
  Ryan’s paintings are also clues!! It all makes sense with each page.
  Loved it.
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  Wyktor Paul

  Usually his books scare the bejesus outta me, but this one didn't, which was rather disappointing.
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  Eric

  This is my first Jim Rook novel, and I must say, I didn't like it at all. Rook isn't a very compelling or likable protagonist and the villains are cardboard cutout cliches. Even worse, Rook and other characters do some really stupid, unbelievable things and that just made me dislike this book even more.
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  Vincent Diamond

  DNF.
  
  The lack of emotional nuance for the main character made me put this down. He finds a girl and eight cats nailed to a ceiling and has no reaction? Really?
  
  Not a character I want to spend 250+ pages with.
  
  
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  Cl

  Graham Masterton books are great!
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  Bax

  i finished a terrible book. never again.
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  Amy

  Decent.
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  Chip

  Not going to lie, my least favorite of the series.
  
  For those who read this first, not a good example of the entire series.
  
  My two cents at least.
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  Stephen Morris

  Gaps in logic and unrealistic
  
  Although Masterton has several interesting ideas to explore and turns of phrase in this book, the overall effect is extremely disappointing.