Do you really know what lurks on the other side of the garden fence?It looks like Adam Nevill is going to have a stellar finish to 2021, hot on the heels of the hit Netflix adaptation of No One Gets Out Alive (2014) his hotly anticipated tenth novel Cunning Folk creeps into print, timed to perfection for Halloween. I have been a fan of Nevill for many years and a release from this author is always a high point in my literary calendar and this latest did not disappoint. One cannot help being cont...

Damn he’s good. Review to come.

Yip, this is what horror is all about. Another creepy tale but this time focusing on those who are physically close to us in proximity when we are at our safest. What are they doing behind the scenes? Do you REALLY know? I kind of struggled a bit to get used to the present tense and often clipped sentences of Adam's latest work (possibly due to the fact that most book i've read are in past tense so i found it a bit jarring). He also describes scenes like no-one else i've read, even though i feel...

Folklore galorePoetic analogies drove home by disjointed, staccato bouts of anxiety.A dreamlike trip through a living nightmare with the neighbors next door.Perfect autumn reading 💀

There are few decisions we make in life as monumental as buying a home. The place where we rest our heads at night--our safe havens from the world where we shelter our family--it's a big deal! Worth mentioning is the fact that home ownership is a serious financial commitment as well as a location commitment-the place where you will plant some roots.Adam Nevill introduces readers to a family of three, Fiona, Tom, and little Gracie in a season of their lives where they have made a big decision to

The first half of this book was overly descriptive and slow for me. But the second half made up for it. I enjoyed the story and loved the end.

Creepy Folklore Vibes!Backstory:Tom and his wife, Fiona along with their little girl, Gracey move into a new home that borders the woods. The only sign of life is their next door neighbors - the Moots. When they first move into the home, Tom and Fiona are never approached by the neighbors nor does it seem that the neighbors even want to make friends as they stay to themselves. As Tom and Fiona get settled into their new home, they tell Gracey not to go into the woods, but kids will be kids and s...

This was a very drawn out read. I tend to wait until a book has died down in popularity before I read it, but I went against my better instincts and dove into this. So on the positives, the writing quality is superb, and the premise is very interesting. The author creates a haunting and uncomfortable atmosphere, keeping the tension knob turned all the way on high. Now, on the downside, I did not care for the level of unnecessary detail that was laid out. Especially in the first 30% of the book,

Cunning Folk is the newest book by Adam Nevill and it’s a strange and twisted tale of terrible neighbors, an ancient woodland behind the house, countless home improvements and dark figures that creep outside at night.If this sounds like a weird synopsis, wait until you crack open this book and get into the reality of the minds of the neighbors, the Moots.Nevill has a way of being too descriptive at times and not getting to the point. In the first half of the book, I felt like this was the case.I...

** Edited as review is now live on Kendall Reviews! **I’m actually a bit stuck as to how to begin this review. Over the last few years, I’ve read a significant amount of Nevill’s work (not all, but a good portion) and he’s quickly become a favorite author of mine.Nevill bridges the gap in the horror world. At least in my opinion. He walks that line between the classic horror literature of slow-build, constantly growing dread and characters that dissolve over the course of 300 pages, while also t...

Edited: reviewing afterword and book: That treatise after the end of the book that Adam has written is so humorous that I did laugh— at first. It’s also a very serious issue and a source of misery. Neighbors. The whole time I was reading this book, I thought, how appropriate a theme this book is for these times we are living in! We’re doing some highly detailed research or hiring a P. I. next time we get new neighbors. More later…Now on to the book itself: What a trip! I kept thinking alright so...

Quick synopsis: a lower middle-class family purchases their first house ever, a dilapidated fixer-upper in the English countryside. The problem? They moved in next door to the worst neighbors of all time, who are hell bent on making their lives a nightmare. And their methods may or may not be otherworldly ... Not gonna lie ... I struggled terribly with the first half of this book. The writing style and word choices were a turn-off. The prose felt deliberately overly-descriptive. Now, this isn’t

This book was absolutely fucking BRILLIANT. It had me hooked right from the get go, it sunk its claws in deep and didn’t let go. In fact, it still hasn’t let go because I’m still thinking about it constantly days later. This story just takes nightmare neighbours to a whole new deliciously evil level and I revelled in every second of it. It was just so stunning, Nevill cast a wicked spell on me with this story and I’ll never get over it. I’m a big fan of folk horror but this is unlike any folk ho...

So until the last part of the book I was leaning toward a 3.5 rounded up to 4. But the 2nd half of this one was so intense I had to bump it up to a 4.5 rounded to 5. Amazing! The beginning of this book is VERY descriptive, maybe it's purposeful, maybe not but it goes into massive amounts of detail. Especially about flowers, trees, the woods etc. I kept losing focus and having to go back over paragraphs to remember what the hell I had just read. It was creepy enough to keep my attention, however,...

Totally Gripped!!Omg from the first page, I was totally gripped! This book is an absolute page turner, and I was foregoing watching the telly at night because I couldn’t wait to get back to this book. This is the first book from Adam Nevill which I have read, but I CANT wait to read more. I’ve never had good neighbours next door to any properties I have lived in, and they have always been problematic, loud music and banging at all hours of the night, poisoning my mum’s dog when she got into thei...

A tight, fast paced, and scary novel about using your life savings to move into a derelict house right next-door to NEIGHBORS FROM HELL. Cunning Folk is a story filled with the classic Adam Nevill tropes: frightening dream sequences, terrifying things dropping from the ceiling, grotesque effigies of pagan deities, and a wonderfully suffocating first half that will force you to read at a breakneck speed to get yourself mentally to safe ground.. (before Amazon sent me Cunning Folk a month earlier

If you ever thought you had bad neighbours, think again! This book was so unsettling. The way the wrongdoings escalated was tremendous! And the fear factor in this story was, for me, spot on the fact that the bad blood between the family that moves to this house and the people next door lacks of motives. How could you face such events without understanding what really started them? That's what the main character is dealing with here. And I don't say it as a critique, on the contrary!, this is wh...

This was my first introduction to this author and I feel like I’ve been missing out big time! I’ve read some misses with authors in previous years but with this one I instantly connected with his great writing style. It’s simple yet lyrical somehow. Where some reviewers complained that he over explained and the book could’ve been thinned out I have to completely disagree. I felt I got just enough information that was needed for each character we followed and the locales were also perfectly pictu...

Nevill is the greatest horror writer alive right now…I’m convinced. I’d put him and Nathan Ballingrud into my top three favorite horror/weird/folk writers along with Laird Barron. Nevill’s prose is almost poetic and has the force of a hammer-it grabs your attention and won’t let go. His story telling is also par excellence….slow burn and creeping. I have been a fan of his work since I read House of Small Shadows…was never able to get that one out of my mind and will re-read at some point. Since