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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a decent read if you are just looking for a kill em all splatterfest of a novel, don't expect any questions to be answers though, except for who will survive and what will be left of them. It was by far the goriest most depraved novel of Brian keene's that I have read and I have read most of them. It had some original and grewsum parts in it that made it stand out from similar novels. Rating: 2.5 of 5 Inner city cannibals + trapped teenagers = lots of carnage. That's about the gist of Urban Gothic, and why I won't read it again. With horror movies, I'm a gorehound. Probably why zombie flicks are my fave. But in its literary counterpart, there has to be more than just splatter in order to get under my skin, to terrify me. Keene's use of smell was brilliant, though. It made the story way more shocking (and sickening) than if he'd relied solely on visuals. I gagged a couple times and flinched more times than I can count. Fast-paced, rampant graphic violence, and human deformities galore. Note to self: This was my first Keene novel. Even though this one didn't blow me away, I still plan to read The Rising. no reviews | add a review
When their car breaks down in the middle of the seediest part of the inner city, a group of teenagers take refuge in an abandoned row house. But it's not abandoned at all. The inhabitants are no longer human, and they don't take kindly to intruders. No library descriptions found.
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Contrary to other reviews, there is absolutely no rape of any living thing in this book. A corpse isn't a person. It's gross, incredibly repulsive, and a serious crime in most places, but it isn't rape. ( )