This book was utterly terrifying.

2.5 StarsThis was a long, underwhelming horror novel. I was excited by the premise, but I found myself bored by the actual story. I'm starting to think that is author is just not for me.

I read and enjoyed two other Nevill books (Apartment 16 and The Ritual) but LD was the one I liked the best. Nevill's prose is visceral; full of sensory input (sights, smells, sounds, etc.) that help create a satisfyingly eerie stories such as LD. This is a difficult book to review without spoilers (and oh, that ending!), but it basically follows our main protagonist Kyle and his shooting a documentary on the fly. Kyle has produced/directed a few documentaries (one seems to be based on Nevill's

Scared the ever loving shit out of me!

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ “What happened was inevitable. Cops in LA saw it before with old Charlie Manson. Cops someplace else will see it again. You don’t need no FBI or profiler to tell you different. They left the road, son, and they got chewed up.” Well, shit. Do you like a real slow burner of a book on cold days (kind of like the equivalent of a savory crockpot meal)? Yeah, apparently everyone else but me does too. What can I say? I have a short att...

I am a recent convert to the writing of Adam Nevill. Hailed as the UK's answer to Stephen King, Nevill writes complex and deep horror. I was keen to get stuck into this one after buying it to see if it was as exciting and as scary as some of his other books. It's nice to have some British horror authors popping up with their talent to be part of the horror genre scenes. When indie filmmaker, Kyle Freeman is offered a deal to make a documentary about a notorious cult, an opportunity to avoid both...

I’m pretty sure this is the best horror novel that I’ve read so far this year out of about 99 and counting. The ending slipped a little - It went from ALIEN to ALIENS in that last chapter, a little too action heavy. That dampened the ambience a bit. It didn’t match the cadence of the rest of the book. I think less would have been more when it comes to the details of the conclusion but that was really the only thing I didn’t like and I don’t want to be a dick about it so it still gets five stars....

I've been seeing Adam Nevill books pop up in my feed lately because my friend Sha has been reading the heck out of them. Sha..you owe me some new drawers. Because I think I shat in mine while reading this book. Kyle is a independent documentary filmmaker with a few titles to his name..such as his ground breaking work "Covens" (Yes, I will use any excuse at all to use an Covens gif-get over it)He is approached with "an offer he can't refuse". A rich weirdo named Max wants him to look into a...

'Blair Witch this, brothers and sisters. It ain't a hoax.'The ultimate false messiah tale, macabre to the bone . . . to the very blackened bones. Bits of a nightmare shuddering awake, a dirty yellow mist in wavy air, dogs in the sky, porcine squeals and scrabbling trotters, a reek that permeates everything. For those of us who dote on horror, Adam Nevill is the real deal. Period. (view spoiler)[If your home happens to have any of those unsightly ceiling stains, you have my deepest condolences. T...

Last days by Adam Nevill is easily one of the best modern day horror novels I've read this year. This story will suck you in, devour your feelings of safety and comfort as you sit reading and nonchalantly spit you out with a wry evil grin, leaving you begging for more. I haven't been gripped this tightly since the one occasion I was thrown out of a pub as a young man. Last Days will scare you shitless as Nevill pumps up the tension and terror in a clinical fashion that starts off shredding your

There is only one way to put this. This book sucked. It sucked to high heaven. It bored me nearly to death with every page. I honestly wondered if all of the good reviews were paid to say nice things about this crappy tome. Even as I write this, I think that might still be the case. With all that said, here are my issues with this crappy thing.The author has zero sense of pacing. This book moved at a snail’s pace for chapter upon chapter and then suddenly all kinds of things started to happen in...

This book is really good and actually scary. If you read it at night, please have a night light ready.

I rated this two stars before, but I feel that's kind of harsh. Upping it by one. I loved the beginning 2/3 of the book. The first third, especially, creeped the living fuck out of me. The bit in France...But the ending was like a big blender with everything thrown in. Too over the top. Too many 'things'. It took the horror right out.

Gotta think.*****edit If you are all about creepy cults and building tension, then this book might be for you. Just keep in mind, if you have ever read any of this author’s other works just how tightly he likes to wind you and then let you go. A guy and his partner are asked to film some former cult members in interviews. This cult was long ago. There are only a few of them still alive because it was a while ago. The other part of the reason for that is not many were smart enough to get out earl...

Move over Charles Manson!There's a new cult leader in town! This book follows the story of a sadistic cult leader going by the name of Sister Katherine as it is unravelled piece by piece to the reader through the eyes of Kyle, an ameture documentary film maker, who has been hired to make a film on Sister Katherine and her cult.This book has a REALLY good beginning! It starts off super creepy. Like it was giving me "funny" dreams, creepy. It was really freaking me out! 😱 And the only other book I...

This book had me absolutely mesmerized right from page one. I took a course on religious cults and sects in college and ever since then I've been fascinated by stories, fiction or not, that involve cults. And I always get extra giddy when it’s a horror novel involving cults and the supernatural. I really love the way this story was presented, more of a look back at what happened rather than being in the midst of it. I think it worked really well here, that documentary feel had me hooked and real...

You know how Stephen King has trouble wrapping up the endings of his books? Adam Nevill has a similar issue, only it's the entire second half that gives him trouble. Almost every damn time.Last Days starts out promising. A documentary maker and his cameraman head off to research a mysterious cult that ended in a mass murder-suicide. It's a slow burn horror with a lot of genuinely terrifying moments, though I'll admit it's nowhere near as scary as The Ritual. There's a nice balance between dialog...

Extreme guerrilla film-making. Six locations, three countries in eleven days. Easy peasy. Except when the Old Friends come to crash the party. Blood Friends. The bodies are starting to pile up and soon it will be raining black bones. If you think that’s bad, just wait ‘till you hear about Sister-fat-fuck-Katherine and the Unholy Swine. The time of Ascent is here.A solid read that almost felt like two novellas in one – The Search and The Siege. Both very good. Both very dark, but paced differentl...

A very solid read. Three books in and I'm digging this Nevill guy. I liked the Ritual and loved Under a Watchful Eye, it remains my favorite by him, and this one starts off strong but kind of slows down in the final third and becomes somewhat repetitive until a crazy and bloody finish. I've grown to like his tell and don't show approach and how he leaves it up to the readers imagination to fill in a lot if the finer details.

It is hard to get under my skin, that creeping dread, chills up the spine, under your skin. It had been a very long time since I had read a book that just caused a sensation of fear. I have to say I LOVED IT! I was thrilled to find this book, I miss the books that just flat out creep you out and give you nightmares kind of books. I recommend this to everyone and I highly recommend if you are reading this, to pick up this book. Get ready though, buckle up for one heck of a ride, Nevill can spin a...