Beware

Good story line. Original plot. Certainly a page turner. Don't know why Mr. Laymon felt compelled to have a rape scene occur at least once (sometimes several times) every 30 pages or so. Pretty much every character in the novel was obsessed with sex to the point that it made me just roll my eyes eventually and wonder what was compelling Laymon to dwell on sex so much. Laymon also has only two types of women in this book: helpless rape victims or homicidal nymphomaniacs. I gave it three stars because I knew what to expect going in. You can't exactly turn on a trashy B Horror movie and expect something great---but sometimes you just want to enjoy the camp of a B Horror movie. This book is just like that.

In Beware, the story starts off with Lacey Allen, a small town reporter, who is covering attacks by a mysterious assailant making attacks at a local market. Lacey is stalked and attacked by this assailant, who turns out to be invisible. After she escapes, she is on the run. In a separate story line, Dukane, a combination of James Bond and GI Joe, is extracting a rich girl from a VooDoo cult. This cult is your stereotypical, not remotely believable all powerful, omnipresent group that can accomplish just about everything. While Lacey is on the run, she runs into Scott, a thriller author. In a ridiculous, absurd coincidence, Scott is best friends with Dukane, who comes out to help Lacey against her invisible killer.

The basic premise of show more this story is good, and the writing is competent and professional. The plot needs a good bit of work however. The coincidences are a bit much to accept, and there are massive plot holes. The characters are also one-dimensional and not terribly true to life. I also didn't remotely care for the careless and flippant way Laymon handled the rapes that occurred during the novel. Beyond that the book was oversexed, as if the author was trying to put in sex wherever he could even when it didn't make much sense. Still, there was some positive aspects to the novel. It was brief and fast moving and fairly entertaining.
Carl Alves - author of Blood Street show less

It was a decent read, nothing outstanding. It got a bit cheesy in a few places but the basic plotline was pretty danged interesting and a little out of the ordinary. Very graphic in violence and in sexual assault. I did not care for the ending. It just stopped. I was also confused by the last 2 or 3 chapters and had to read and re-read because I knew what had happened but not how it had happened.

If you want a horror book that is a fast and fairly interesting read, I would recommend this one. Definitely a beach read or plane read.

Undead Girl Gang lived up to it's cover and blurb (which is what drew me in). It was a true to genre YA read, many YAs that I read tend to lean very close to New Adult. But this book stays within the YA age range perfectly. The characters were very stereotypical high school characters but did fulfill that theme fully. This was a slight disappointment as the stereotypical high school story is played out for me. Overall, it was a good story, and wrapped up well. It took me longer to read due to a few spots that were slow.

Although I thought the storyline was fantastic, the realism of what happened with the main character was horrible. Anyone who was violated the way she was would NEVER be interested nor trusting of others. (trying desperately not to give anything away here....) This book is full of violence, murder and sex - definitely not for the kids!!!

Meh...A man turned invisible through voodoo is torturing and killing people while also on the run from the priestess who turned him invisible for her own nefarious purposes. I would have been more interested in more of the voodoo stuff and less of the invisible psychopath. It was just okay.

Beware - Richard Laymon ***

My 6th book by Laymon so I know what to expect in terms of violence and graphic sex. I just didn'y enjoy this as much as his other works, at times it just seemed very rushed and without any of the twists I usually enjoy.

Lacey Allen is a reporter but she is being terrorised (raped etc) by an invisible man, Can she escape? And how is the cult governed by Laveda connected?

Worth a look but by far not Laymon's best.