Clive Barker's Everville is an absolute page turner. The first couple chapters start out slow, but the book quickly gains momentum, moving from the early 1800's to the 1990's in a quick fashion, with the 90's being where most of the story takes place. Barker joins and forges amazing links between vastly different people in his tale, pulling them all together in an effort to save humanity as we know it, supposedly, depending on how the reader interprets things, from out own nightmarish creations. Dreams are powerful things to us all, and even more so in Bakers amazingly detailed and robust Dream-Sea, Quiddity. With dozens of twists and turns along the way, Barkers style captivates the imagination, and goads you into wanting more, needing to KNOW above all else. ( )

wonderful. stayed up all night. had to. it was so suspenseful, entertaining, ingenious.
A must read. Think NEVERENDING STORY for adults. ( )

I read this before "Great and Secret Show" without realizing it was the sequel. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I picked it up in the library by chance the week the library put it on the "New Books" shelf and spend the next two weeks maddly reading it. I later bought it in paperback and around 2005 bought a hardcover version from Ebay along with "Great and Secret Show", which I have not read yet.

It'll take a re-read to do a proper review, but to anyone who appreciates surreal horror, I feel this presents a great option. ( )

Didn't really enjoy this at all, compared to the other Barker books. This is pretty much when I stopped reading him, in general. A quite disappointing book after the other work I had enjoyed reading in the past. Hard to put the figure on quite why, but it could well be that there are just not enough monsters.

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