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Best antagonist's dilemma ever: the "sacrifice" he must choose to make in order to remain immortal.A thrilling and fun read; great opening chapters, and remains a page-turner throughout. I find the antagonist's disparate attitude oddly appealing: he is truly and deeply affectionate, and yet ready in an instant to throw it all away for his own coldly-calculated survival.I find myself torn between rooting for the protagonist and antagonist on this one: a first-rate reader's dilemma!
Neat idea behind the book, but it seemed like an over amount of filler detail that dragged things out. Seems like the book could have been about half as long, when it comes to going from point A to point B. Would have been better if there was some other things going on.
Read in 1996. A terrifying and tragic look at the life of Greg Walker, who is compelled to visit an ancient Mayan temple every nineteen years in order to prolong his unnaturally long life. A thrilling and fun read. One of my favorites that year.
maybe 3.5
Wow. What a journey.Just to be sure, this book came pretty close to being a 2-star novel based simply on the beginning. The writing was really good and it managed to pull me in real fast, but after eighty or so pages I was on the verge of giving up. The story just seems to lack substance.But then you get to page 100 and this book throws a complete curve ball.There are three main characters in the novel, and we get to see their POVs throughout the book - Sharissa Walker, a teenage girl on the ver...
I read this book very quickly because I had a very hard time putting it down. It was a very scary mystery about a man who isn't really who everyone thinks he is.
Wow. John Farris wrote some crackin' good pulpy horror novels. Dirty! Scary! Like going on a ride at a traveling carnival where everything's slightly rusty. You might fall off the ferris wheel! You might need a tetanus shot! Or maybe it'll end in cotton candy! I'm going to keep reading them until I have read them all or I get lockjaw.
Farris is so much fun to read.
Very few writers are able to achieve the same level of suspense and terror. Farris has the ability to write a horror story that is both a page-turner and will leave you thinking about his characters and themes. Sacrifice is only the fourth book of his that I've read, but it grabbed me in a way similar to All Heads Turn as the Hunt Goes By, except that, here, he's using ancient Mayan rites rather than the voodoo of the previous novel.Greg Walker appears to be the perfect husband and father. That
Pretty good author. Sort of like John Saul. Would read others by him. Not sure it I have read any in the past and forgot!
I really do love John Farris. He's just such an incredibly FUN read. Originality in concept and no small amount of technical skill combine to set him apart, whatever genre he's working in. But it is clear that his preferred medium is the horror/supernatural thriller novel. And boy, does he shine.Like many of his novels, Sacrifice is a bit of a slow burn. Plenty of seemingly extraneous information and languid developments do slow down the first third of this book, but I never felt bored or burden...
Fascinating read. Very interesting topic with a story that flows really well and is easy to read. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
In the beginning, the story was really slow. As I began to see what was going on with the main character, Greg Walker, and what was going to happen, I was pulled into the story, with a need to find out what was going to happen.Family man Greg Walker has a 17 year old daughter whom he adores. But there is a dark secret in his past that could be the end of her. The story moves from Georgia to Guatemala where the terror begins. Throw in a little fantasy, and a dash of adventure. And some ugly surpr...
