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I didn't really like this and the accident at the beginning is hard to read, even for a hardened horror fan like me.
An alternative reality, horror story. If you like Stephen King, then this is right up your alley (SK recommend from On Writing).
This was my laundry room read: something I wasn't heavily invested in that kept me amused.
This author was recommended to me by a friend and I'm always on a lookout for female horror authors to see how they fare in a male dominated genre. This one fared just ok, at no point did it wow me with a turn of phrase of a turn of plot, but it kept my interest enough. I liked the way Gray worked her scottish heritage into the story, the backstory was in fact the best part of the book, but the characters were not particularly engaging and the world of truckers can only hold so much appeal. Josh...
On the back of this book alone Gray is worthy of the comparison to King. Some scenes were deliciously disturbing and supernatural whereas the one downright horrifying one was also quite mundane. As a Scot I enjoyed Gray's references to places and things quite unrelated to the trans-American tale. Only downside was that where her main male characters were well-fleshed out the females, whilst integral to the plot, felt slightly sketchy.Definitely worth a read and probably several rereads too.
I read this a long time ago but remember liking it and am looking forward to reading other books by this author.
This book was an absolute chore to get through. There were a few (VERY few and far between) interesting sequences, and the protagonist is just... very unlikable. He's a rude, selfish jerk who doesn't seem to really care about anyone but himself, despite the author's insistence on him being a "nice guy." An uninteresting protagonist basically kills the book for me, but there were a lot of other issues: at least two-thirds of the book feels like pure filler, and the villain made some really nonsen...
the chapters defitely awesome
Very good page-turner about a trucker that stumbles upon a small town with dark secrets. I didn’t totally buy one of the plot twists, but overall enjoyed the ride.
While I wasn’t a fan of different aspects of its construction, overall I quite enjoyed this simple horror story.
Read in 1998. Less gory but more creepy type of horror novel.
I was quite surprised...but pleasantly so...that this was written by a woman, if the cover had simply said M. Gray I'd have thought "man". Maybe it's because it reminded me in style of Stephen Laws or maybe because all the other horror I've read by women have been of the ghost/vampire/para-normal romance variety & it seems unusual to find a woman writing in this style...& about demons (my favourites!) But back to the story itself...Overall it was an entertaining enough read, though maybe a tad o...
The paperback edition I read weighed in at 481 pages, which seems unnecessarily long. In many books, secondary characters serve functional roles within the story, but both Elizabeth and Sim just seemed like filler to stretch out the narrative. And some passages (e.g. the creature climbing along Josh’s truck on pgs. 296-303) took far too long, and turned what should have been a breathless sequence into a monotonous one. At its core, Furnace was a fine idea for a horror novel, with demons, and alc...
I remember Muriel Gray presenting pop stars on The Tube (or "Tewb" as she says it) or Bliss on British telly in the 80s. She frequently had to take the piss out of an uncooperative Paul Weller or Martin Degville; people with a third of her brains. Then, being brilliant, she set her sights on writing horror novels.Alright, it's just M.R. James Casting of the Runes with Muriel turning up the thermostat! All the fun is how Josh is going to his ass out of the shithole and guessing who passed him the...
Great story, great pace. Loved it 👍
Literally quit three chapters in when the main character shed a tear over some guy noticing Mcdonalds over the landscape; a woman in the emotional turmoil of terminating a pregnancy notices the "enticing" breasts that pregnancy is, nevertheless, giving her; and when the main asshole character calls the woman a "selfish bitch" for wanting to end a pregnancy from a relationship that's one degree of formality above friends with benefits and roommates.
This isn't the scariest horror novel I ever read, but I enjoyed it. Muriel Gray created some interesting characters and the plot keeps building the tension until the very end.
I've read this book a couple of times now and have enjoyed it every time. It has such a great twist at the end that I wish I had written it.There are not enough decent female horror writers around and Muriel Gray certainly doesn't let the side down. I only wish she would write some more!
I liked the idea of the story line but, I thought there was to much filler that dragged the story line. If this had been a mystery story line I would have guessed in the first chapter who done it and the second to last chapter how the hero foield the bad guy or woman.
Took me awhile to get through this one because I couldn't get into it that well, plus I was hoping for more, it sounded gory, but wasn't that spectacular.
