Snow
"Some 'old school' horror storytelling of the highest degree" from the award-winning author of Bone White (Bloody Disgusting). They come in with the snow. They are the snow . . . The blizzard begins pummeling the Midwest on Christmas Eve, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Todd Curry doesn't need another reason to disappoint his son, so he joins three other people in renting the last four-wheel drive available and they set out into the blinding snow. Only two hours into the treacherous trip west, Todd swerves to avoid a man in the middle of the highway. The stranger claims his daughter is lost somewhere out in the snow. Though his odd demeanor and ripped clothes make Todd and his group uneasy, they agree to take the man to the nearest town--if the now-damaged car can make it. What awaits them at the next exit, however, is nothing they could have imagined. Around an empty town square, fires burn, cars are abandoned, storefronts are smashed. And there is no one to be seen--for now . . . But soon the shadows lurking on the edges of their vision will step into the light, and Todd and his fellow travelers will find themselves facing a sharp-scythed evil shaped from the snow, tearing its way into human form--and taking the neighborhood by storm. "Malfi's descriptive writing captures the cold and desperate scene in a way that will lure new fans to the genre." --Las Vegas Review-Journal "An impressively atmospheric novel with a wicked streak." --Dread Central
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I feel like I'm on a bad track with books from one of the book clubs I'm a part of. Snow was definitely not a book I would have listened to otherwise. It starts with Todd trying to go on a trip to see his young son Justin. However, due to snowstorm things get a bit weird. First though, he meets Kate, Fred and Nan Wilkinson and they set out to try to get to their destination by driving. All is well and normal. Enter Eddie. It becomes quite apparent there is something dangerously wrong with this man. No one can understand what is going on. As they try to get out of the town, they come to realize that man is not the only one who has something wrong with them. Quite frankly, the entire story reminded me of TWD even though I've only seen parts of it and not the whole thing. Along the way Tood, Kate, and crew came others like Seana, Meg, and her brother Chris. This is one time that having safety in numbers might have doomed them. One by one...like a nursey rhyme except one could bring someone nightmares. By the end of the book, I was tired of snow. I was tired of the characters. I was tired of the flirting because it really made no sense. Then we got an epilogue for no reason at all. The only saving grace of this book is the narrator. That seems to be the only one I can tolerate audiobooks that have a weak storyline. I would definitely listen to the narrator again, but I would not recommend this book unless the reader did not care about an unreliable storyline and annoying characters that have zero growth development.
Snow is a small town horror that takes place in the middle of winter. The cold seems to play its own character. The writing was vivid and the characters were wonderful, but the plot seemed a little thin and I would have been satisfied if the book was shorter. Still, it was a fun and exciting read with gunfire, explosions, and a deep sense of paranoia.
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