Read this in 2014. Tops. Exciting from beginning to end ( )

I went into this completely blind. Had never heard of it and did not read the inside blurb. Saw it on an old Bram Stoker Award list and picked it up. Started reading it and all was going well. Thought I new where it was going and was looking forward to the direction. Then it turned in a completely different direction and it was a let down. Felt like dnf'ing but wanted to see if it was still a worthy story. In my opinion it wasn't. Some may like it and it did get short listed for a BSA but I didn't like it. ( )

Very interesting premise and very informational. Also full of action and intense. The constant strange "reveals" got a little much (not a reporter, the other 3 guys, the wife, the other guy, etc.) but it all came together in the end I suppose. Did enjoy it a lot tho. ( )

This is one of the best books I’ve ever read and I will recommend it at the top of my lungs to anyone that will listen, literally forever. This book had me glued to the pages the whole way through, I think I may have forgotten how to breath at times, there’s so much suspense and twists and turns, the atmosphere and scenes are set so well it’s like your experiencing everything with them, there’s so much going on and it goes from super fun exploration to horrifying nightmare before you can put the book down. I will never be able to listen to “moon river” to fall asleep to again ( )

In 1984 (I think), I read David Morrell's First Blood. I was captivated, amazed, in awe. I hadn't watched the movie, so I didn't know what to expect, nor had I read any reviews of the book. It was just something I picked up on the shelf at my local Waldenbooks-and completely out of my reading genre.

I should say my "reading age," as well. I was 12.

Since then, I hadn't read anything else by Morrell. I bounced between horror and fantasy, science fiction and science fact. So when I was last at the library, perusing the aisles, I picked up Creepers. Morrell fascinated me as a kid. Could he do the same 27 years later.

Um . . . apparently not.

Between static characters I'd met somewhere before, a setting I'd visited a few hundred times, themes of greed and time I know I'd read before, Creepers was, in a word, disappointing. I've marked it 2 stars simply because it was-in a Scooby Doo sort of way-entertaining. (In fact, I swear at least two characters would have fit perfectly into a Scooby Doo episode, and don't think I didn't imagine the big dumb dog stumbling to the rescue in at least one not-so-tense scene.)

I will likely try other Morrell novels to see if this was just an anomaly. I'd like to think so. ( )