My Review:
Complicated dark fantasy but in a very good way. I loved the different ethnicity point of view in the story – Jewish, Greek Orthodox, Christian. I started reading and by the time I looked up I’d already finished over half the story. A story that keeps me involved for that long is a GOOD story. It is set in 1913 Salem, Mass. with high school age main characters. I do think there were liberties taken with the time period but the story telling was good that I didn’t mind that. Also I usually don’t read stories with younger characters. But again the story-telling was so good, didn’t matter. I do not think this is a YA book. It has dark themes and violence. It is a good adult horror/dark fantasy story. It’s a nice spin on the good vs evil saga.
Book Blurb:
The Darkening Dream is the chilling new dark fantasy novel by Andy Gavin, creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter.
Even as the modern world pushes the supernatural aside in favor of science and steel, the old ways remain. God, demon, monster, and sorcerer alike plot to regain what was theirs.
1913, Salem, Massachusetts – Sarah Engelmann’s life is full of friends, books, and avoiding the pressure to choose a husband, until an ominous vision and the haunting call of an otherworldly trumpet shake her. When she stumbles across a gruesome corpse, she fears that her vision was more of a premonition. And when she sees the murdered boy moving through the crowd at an amusement park, Sarah is thrust into a dark battle she does not understand.
With the help of Alex, a Greek immigrant who knows a startling amount about the undead, Sarah sets out to uncover the truth. Their quest takes them to the factory mills of Salem, on a midnight boat ride to spy on an eerie coastal lair, and back, unexpectedly, to their own homes. What can Alex’s elderly, vampire-hunting grandfather and Sarah’s own rabbi father tell them? And what do Sarah’s continuing visions reveal?
No less than Gabriel’s Trumpet, the tool that will announce the End of Days, is at stake, and the forces that have banded to recover it include a 900 year-old vampire, a trio of disgruntled Egyptian gods, and a demon-loving Puritan minister. At the center of this swirling cast is Sarah, who must fight a millennia-old battle against unspeakable forces, knowing the ultimate prize might be herself.
English: Andy Gavin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Author Bio:
Andy Gavin is an unstoppable storyteller who studied for his Ph.D. at M.I.T. and founded video game developer Naughty Dog, Inc. at the age of fifteen, serving as co-president for two decades. There he created, produced, and directed over a dozen video games, including the award winning and best selling Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter franchises, selling over 40 million units worldwide. He sleeps little, reads novels and histories, watches media obsessively, travels, and of course, writes.
Find him at: http://andy-gavin-author.com
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I was very pleasantly surprised by the depth of this book. When asked to review it sounded good but I did have this voice in my head saying how good a book could a game designer/creator write? Apparently a very good one a must read for sure
Yeah I had no idea what to expect and I put it down farther on my list when I first looked at it because I wasn’t sure. Picked it back up and ‘zoom’!