Not one of Lee's strongest novels to be sure. Despite the name and the blurb on the rear cover, this is really more of a mystery novel with some supernatural aspects than a horror novel. Also, I do not know what Lee was imbibing/smoking when he wrote this, but the hyper-sexual scenes in the book serve to detract from the story rather than add to it. With a good editor, this might have been a really good novel, but as it stands, is was at best just OK. The main protagonist is Patricia, now a big

Quite simply the worst novel I've ever read.I quit reading it in the last quarter of the book and just looked up the ending online. I'm glad I didn't finish it. I love horror novels and even intense horror novels. This was not a horror novel. The supernatural elements were nearly no existent and there wasn't even a serial killer or stalker. It was about a town of horrible people with no morals who rape, murder, and desecrate everything around them. Simply disgusting for no reason. Scenes of illi...

Short Summary: A forty something red headed, large breasted, and eternally horny female lawyer returns to her hometown to attend the funeral of her sister’s sleaze ball husband. The recently murdered died under very strange circumstances and we figure out within the first four pages that he’s been killing random gypsy type people who are very short, ugly in the face, and supermodel in the body… these people are simply called “Squatters.” More people turn up dead, drugs start showing up, and our

This book felt like an amalgamation of many of the previous Edward Lee books I've read. There's nothing new in it except maybe the way in which people die, which is only slightly interesting and not at all gruesome.I've seen Lee's characters' libidos go crazy before due to outside interference. This time, I guess he wanted to do it and who cares the reason, because the explanation for it is that Patricia hit 40. No joke.Every girl in this book has a huge rack, even if they're only 11 years old.

Well color me surprised. This was not the amazing, twisted Edward Lee book I imagined it would be.Guess maybe I should listen to those reviews a little more, huh?I really hoped they were wrong.But nope.I was.The ony thing that kept this book from being a one star review was the writing. It was pretty decent most of the time, with the exception of some strange narrative intrusions here and there.The set up for the story seemed pretty solid, but holy crap...what a lifeless plot. Zero narrative ten...

A remarkably tame Edward Lee novel. Excellent storytelling with a Stephen King feel to it, with a lot more sex of course.

believe the consensus. It's bad. Worst epilogue ever.

Note: I was unable to finish this book. It may have gotten better.According to the back of the book, this is the story of a woman returning to the backwater town she grew up in for her brother-in-law's funeral and discovering something sinister. I made it to the 100 page mark before I decided to abandon it for greener pastures."But Dan, why did you abandon it? You've toughed out some pretty bad books!" you say.Well, this is allegedly a horror novel and not one mildly horrifying thing happened in...

Smutty, smutty horror... fun for October

What a misogynistic bunch of tripe. Not one, not two, not three, but four, five, six and more buxom women who are ogled, fantasized about, raped, axed, hanged, and tortured in this southern horror tale. There seems to be two types of women in an Ed Lee book: fuckable, creamy-titted foxes who can't get enough sex in a given day or obese, nagging housewives who make life a living hell for their frustrated husbands. Pass this stinker on by! I'm giving it two stars because Lee is a wonderful writer

Edward Lee, well known for his demented horror and rich sexual imagery, delivers a rather strange book focusing on a small town dominated by crab picking ‘squatters’. The squatters are about as unusual as you can get ­ when they speak you barely see their mouths move, they’re amazingly short, the women possess eerily appetizing bodies, and they’re all living together on a type of plantation in oddly structured abodes. And of course people such as this practice a different kind of religion that c...

i've only read one other one of edward lee's books (along with a couple of short stories) in the past, but i've also read about him and his works, so i kind of new what to expect--ultra-violence and ultra-sex. basically, ultra-exploitation. to put it cinematically, edward lee is kind of like grindhouse (the genre, not the double-feature) crossed with clive barker.this book, about a small town in southern virginia that runs into trouble with big-city land developers, fills all of those qualificat...

Come on, everyone. The book is called, "The Backwoods". What did you expect? I'm sure Lee blazed through writing this in a matter of weeks -- it has all the standard Lee stuff -- rapes, sex, violent deaths, sex, ridiculous gore, sex, torture, and sex. Look, every few months or so I need my fix of Edward Lee to purge my system. This book worked for me. I had a smile on my face thinking how much fun Edward had writing this. I laughed out loud many times at some of his sexual descriptions. He's not...

I am not even sure where to start-- this was recommended to me by a member of a Horror Group I belong to on this sit. At first, it WAS horrific- simply brutal, ghastly, ugly things occurred. It was *almost* graphic just for the sake of being graphic. Then, something happened-- a great story took shape. Patricia returns to her hometown for the funeral of her Judy's (her sister)'s (horrible) husband. Her sister owns a lot of land in their small town, and a group of 'hill people' known as 'The Squa...

Surprisingly tame (horror-wise) for Lee, although the sex is still plentiful. Just a weirdly average story.

Done at last! I can't believe how long it took me to get through this book. I thought I'd be giving it two stars, but it picked up a bit towards the end. -----2.5 starsI had been looking forward to trying an Edward Lee book, but I'm not too sure that I selected the right one. Maybe it was my mindset but I couldn't get into this one at all, really, until the final twenty-five percent or so (and possibly because I was excited to be so close to finally finishing)! Seriously, this book took over alm...

FulfillingThis is an amazing book. It has everything. A fantastic storyline with lots of twists, for and upheaval, plots and curiosities and investigations and revenge. All topped.off with desire and greed. Everything flowed together brilliantly giving a fulfilled ending that answered all the questions you were. Thinking throughout the book. Truly a great book. Definitely recommend you give it read.

It might not seem like it to first time Edward Lee readers but BACKWOODS is a much more subdued novel than most of the stuff that Lee writes. It has large quantities of sex. It has violent scenes that make you cringe. And it combines the two into different rape scenes by obviously despicable characters. However the majority of the acts are subtle and not quite as in your face as other Lee novels.The story follows Patricia White who comes back home to the backwoods of Virginia after her sister Ju...

The synopsis on the back of this book made it sound good, but it wasn't. I can't think of anything good to say about it...the whole time I was reading it I kept wondering "when is something gonna HAPPEN?"

Edward Lee, The Backwoods (Leisure, 2005)Lee turns in another fast-paced mystery/thriller with horror elements, though this one is far less a straight-up horror novel than most of the Lee books I've read over the years. If you're familiar with Ed Lee, you know what you're getting into (and, actually, it's kind of toned down here, from the stuff of his I'm used to seeing)-- adrenaline-packed action sequences that usually end up with people being very dead and very bloody, supercharged sex, and pl...