The Influence

I've had The Influence on my Kindle and in Audible for quite a while, but just never got around to it. Man, I was missing out. I started out listening on Audible, but got so caught up in the story that I started reading on my Kindle during the times that I couldn't be listening.
The Influence is the kind of old-school horror novel that made me love this genre in the first place. The "isolated town going chaotic" trope is a favorite, and I feel Bentley Little used it very creatively here.
There is a large cast of supplemental characters that are well utilized. The main characters are well-written and behaved consistently with the flow of events.
I would give 5 stars, but the climax was a little less than I had hoped for.
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THE INFLUENCE contains some of the most horribly unsexy sex scenes I've ever read. They're awkward and cringe-y.

It started off well, with the whole evil in a small town trope but then descended into something that wanted to be like Salem's Lot or Needful Things, (where the reader is treated to different views from people all across the town.) Unfortunately, I didn't care enough about these people or this town for that to work for me.

There were some pretty imaginative and fun creatures throughout, but what was the story behind them, what was the point? I usually like when every thing isn't tied up in a nice little bow, but geez, I would like a little bit of ribbon!

Overall, this had potential but it didn't live up to it. Just an okay read show more for me show less

There was a hint of the charnel house when I picked this up. I made it to page 48 before I got to the real biblio-necropolis. I had to hold my nose to continue. I had to tie a damp rag around my head to press on. Alas, I could go no further, the stench was too great...

Horror ritin fer Jethro Bodeen.

Sorry if I offend anyone who likes this sort of thing. Mine is going on eBay.

Easy to read, fluffy creature-feature from Bentley Little. Fun, but not spectacular, Little perhaps attempts to add some depth to proceedings by having a reversal of fortune between the haves and have-nots, but mostly this is a pretty straightforward tale along the lines of horror flick JEEPERS CREEPERS and Stephen King's DESPERATION. The ending was surprisingly unsurprising.
Overall, not a bad book, but not great either. If you've been a horror fan for more than a few years, you've seen this all before.

After the third or fourth vignette about Ross and his dick, I called it quits. I know men are basically transfixed by them, but ah, yeah, that's enough. Returned to Audible.

Just couldn't get the right feel for this type of story. Will have to read something else by him

Another good Entry in the ever expanding Bentley Little catalogue.