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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9861551" data-attributes="member: 86653">I've tried and dropped two novels this week. The Fog by James Herbert and The Spawn by Shaun Hutson. The Fog started strong but quickly devolved into weird small-town soap opera. A secret government agent is spying on another branch of the same government, he drives into the nearby town and an earthquake hits, opening a massive fissure through the town...which the spy promptly drives into. Several people and buildings fall in along the fissure. The spy finds and saves a girl and pulls her out of the fissure. Only there's a fog that drove him insane as the cliffhanger of a chapter...and he's perfectly fine at the start of the next chapter which is a few weeks later. The fog wanders around and every 50 pages or so drives someone mad. Like a group of cows that go mad and beat their owner to death. It's well written but I don't care about any of the characters and there's not enough horror or action to keep my interest, so did not finish. The Spawn also started strong...but a bit too strong. A sadistic kid [ISPOILER]traps and tortures some bugs, including setting them on fire[/ISPOILER]. His family is poor so they have old, dried out newspapers everywhere, and the sadistic kid has a little brother who he shares a room with. In the first chapter [ISPOILER]the younger brother, mother (there's no father around), and the sadistic kid are all horribly burned[/ISPOILER] in excruciating detail. The [ISPOILER]brother and mother die in the fire[/ISPOILER]. The sadistic kid is [ISPOILER]horribly scared and loses an eye, but survives[/ISPOILER] and goes to a mental institution. The premise includes [ISPOILER]reanimated aborted fetuses[/ISPOILER] with telekinetic powers. It sounds like a madhouse romp but the style of writing and level detail make it a hard, quick pass. Gah.</blockquote>

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