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*****BEFORE WAYWARD PINES THERE WAS DESERT PLACES*****”What did Keats say? It’s beauty. Not just pretty truth. We have black hearts, but they’re beautiful.”When Andrew Z. Thomas receives a bizarre letter in his mailbox explaining that there is a dead girl buried on his property, soaked in his blood, he at first thinks it is a prank being perpetrated by one of his fans. He is a horror writer and used to receiving...unusual...letters, but this one was different. After several stages of smirking at...
This was nowhere near as good as his more recent work. I read it because it has tenuous links to the Jack Daniels series by Konrath with Blake Crouch collaborating later in the series.
I'm stopping right here (page 113) because this story just got REALLY sick and I need to be able to sleep at night. The only thing that would prompt me to continue reading any more of this is the fact that Blake Crouch is such an excellent writer, and I got drawn in in spite of myself. Darn it, I want to know what happens to Andrew in the end. I may have to break my cardinal rule and peek at the last page. Maybe someday... but not today.
I read Abandon by this author and absolutely loved it. Really really did not like this one. Please please give me any reason at all why he didn't just call the cops when he got the note. Please please give me any reason at all why he went to see if the body were really there and then when it was why he dug it up. HONESTLY? Is this guy a moron or what? I never did like him because he was so stupid. Everything he did was stupid and he never had a good reason for any of it. I thought there was goin...
I’m gonna keep this really short. Blake Crouch, I much prefer your sci-fi thrillers than this serial killer thriller that borderlines the splatterpunk genre.
Dust and DevilsA backstory:Andrew who is an author is feeling in relaxed mode from the book he just completed, but the relaxation doesn't last for long when he gets an eerie letter in the mail telling him there is a body buried on his property and if he does not call the number on a note that is buried with the body by a certain time then a phone call will be made to the police informing them of the so called body and where it can be found. Andrew at first thinks it is a joke as he has received
3.5 RatingI recently read The Pines by Blake Crouch and was that impressed I immediately bought Desert Places & Locked Doors from the Andrew Z. Thomas series.Desert Places was his debut novel written some eight years before Pines and brings us into the world of a successful psychological thriller writer who suddenly has the tension and horror of what he writes about bought very much to reality.Andrew Thomas has all the trappings of a success, a lakeside property, no shortage of money, friends an...
One of Crouch's earlier works, it's a thriller vs. the sci-fi he is so well known for but man he sure can write thriller too! Who knew??The premise of this story is so freaking interesting, creative, and extremely thought provoking. I found myself staring off in to space quite a bit, trying to picture myself in Andy's shoes. The one thing I do wish was that we got a little more back story into Andy's childhood. This was a really quick read, unecessarily.There really isn't much else I can say wit...
I love Crouch, but I just can't go above 3☆ on this one. You can definitely tell this is his first book, with his unpolished writing (which, thankfully, gets much better with his later work) and too far out there storyline. I can suspend disbelief for most things, but this was too much. Maybe being a twin myself, it just made it harder to believe. However, I'll give Crouch props with his relentless pacing and non-stop tension. It was top notch, as usual.
If you ever feel like there isn't enough darkness and depravity in your life, this is the right book for you. There are sections of this book that create disturbing mental images in your head that you can't un-see. Aside from the disturbing nature of the book, the plot-line is forced through the terrible decisions made by the main character. If you have read Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and you are looking for something just as good, look away... far away from Desert Places.
This is one of those books I couldn't put down. At only 280 pages (compare that to a Stephen King book), it made for a fast read! Very suspenseful with moments of real terror... The story is about novelist Andrew Thomas, who one day gets a letter in his mailbox telling him that there is a body buried on his rural property. What's more, the body has his blood on it...and Thomas is told not to call the police. What would you do? This I believe is the debut novel of Blake Crouch (published in 2004...
