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| Value for Money | 6/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 6/10 |
Full review by
Dreadlocksmile
on 9th Sep 2004
User Rating : 6
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Good Points: Fast-paced and packed with gore.
Bad Points: Predictable and tedious storyline with ridiculous elements to it. A reworking of some of his earlier work. Not one of Hutson's better novels.
General comments: Shaun Hutson, Deathday - Synopsis:
"Four hundred years ago, a woman died in agony to keep the secret of the golden amulet and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake. That night the village of Medford is plunged into a nightmare of terror by the discovery of a double murder and mutilation - the first in a series of shocking killings. Wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil - hideous, powerful and vile - is once again reborn".
Deathday was first published back in 1986 under Hutson's pseudonym - Robert Neville. The novel was his one and only to use his Robert Neville pseudonym. The story is another fast-paced ride through a splatterpunk fest. It uses various ideas and inspiration from a number of his earlier novels, which proves to be somewhat of a disappointment for any Hutson fan. The storyline is a simple one with the most cliched characters and obvious twists. Packed with vivid depictions of gore and extreme violence, the book is a standard style of offering from Shaun. Yet the storyline has some ridiculous elements to it that do ruin the novel. For example, the police are confronted by what they believe to be a lunatic who claims the dead are coming back to life. They decide that instead of locking the chap up, they'll lend him enough heavy weaponry to equip a small army...just in case he's telling the truth! Firstly, since when have the police had such weaponry at their disposal and secondly...as if!!!! But putting the comical elements to the plot aside, the whole storyline is predictable and tedious. Not one of his better works.
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