The Exorcist

Review:

 

 

 

Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

 

So begins this book and indeed many other extremely horrific events. Poor Chris has no idea how much her life is about to change as she starts hearing rapping sounds coming from her daughter's room.

 

There's not much I can say about this book that hasn't been said many times over. I remember seeing the movie and being freaked out. However, the book didn't scare me (though I will admit I'm tough to scare). In fact, the book mostly plods along until the exorcism gets started. The last quarter of the book is great, the first three quarters, not so much...

 

I read this for Halloween Bingo, the Classic Horror square.

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Bingo Call: 9/3/18

Reblogged from: Moonlight Madness

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Reading progress update: I've read 49 out of 385 pages.

 

Reading for Halloween Bingo Classic Horror square.

 

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Halloween Bingo Tracking Post

And so it begins...

 

 

 

Called:

9/1   Classic Horror

 

 

 

 

 

Read:

Murder Most Foul - Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

 

 

 

 

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Hunting Fear

Review:

 

 

 

 

This was my head start read. I was so excited that I finished it before the week even ended. I read it for the Murder Most Foul square.

 

This is an exciting crime thriller with detectives that have psychic abilities. The plot had some unexpected twists and left the killer's identity hidden until near the end of the book. The methods of killing are particularly gruesome and frightening, including a timed guillotine, drowning in a tank that fills slowly and being buried alive.

 

This is the first in a series of books with the Special Crimes Unit (a special group within the FBI of detectives with psychic abilities). It seems like each book follows a different special agent.

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