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Title: Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0-515-10589-9 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $377.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: From A Slow Burn To A Raging Fire.....
Comment: Reprisal, the 5th book in F. Paul Wilson's epic "Adversary Cycle" started off pretty slowly, but by the end he had done something no other Author (Except William Peter Blatty with "The Exorcist"...) has ever done: Made me want to sleep with the lights on.....
Picking up twenty-some-odd years after "Reborn" ended, the book focuses on the reborn incarnation of EVIL (So evil he deserves all capitals!), Rasalom, last seen in the first book, "The Keep". To say just what he's up to, and who he's doing it to, would do a disservice to people who haven't read the series yet. The book is swimming with familiar characters from the previous books, as well as introducing some memorable new ones. After a slow start, Wilson digresses to an extended flashback that had such a bone-chilling effect on me that I actually didn't want to go to sleep. I literally could not put the book down, but I almost dreaded reading further. To say the events depicted in the flashback are disturbing would be an understatement. By the end of the book, Wilson has perfectly set the stage for the final book, Nightworld. I can't wait to read it. Reprisal was THAT GOOD.
Problems..? A few. As I said, the book was a little slow at first, and I really never warmed to one of the main characters, Lisl. The illustrations, by John and Laura Lakey, are pretty bland and nondescript. The only one that really worked for me was the one depicting poor Danny....The cover illustration is amazing, however. Also, the Dark Harvest edition has a TON of spelling/Grammar errors, including Lisl repeatedly being referred to as "Lisa", and a few paragraphes of total gibberish in the last chapter, including a paragraph that seems to have been dropped in from the next book, Nightworld. Really sloppy. The book looks GREAT however; If you can find a nice Copy of the Dark Harvest book, I'd say grab it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Can Even Surpass The King
Comment: This book is one of the greats in thrilling and horrifying its reading...This book, in many ways, came out even better than some of the horrifying Stephen King novels, which we all know are first-rate thrillers. You'll have to read it yourself to find out why!
Rating: 4
Summary: Slow burn thriller chills bones while stabbing at heart.
Comment: Reprisal represents a pretty serious shift in the Adversary Cycle's tone and focus. This is an intimate psychological horror story about corruption and revenge (hence the title) rather than conspiracy or otherworldly beings/monsters, at least on the surface. The Evil One has been reborn and, in an interesting twist, decides to have some fun torturing a surviving character from Reborn by defiling and destroying those close to him. These assaults are pretty spine chilling in their utterly soulless ferocity and, as one review points out, may offend some feint of heart readers. Be warned, some sequences will leave you pretty shaken up. Recommended.
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Title: The Keep (Adversary Cycle) by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0812579259 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Haunted Air by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0312878680 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Gateways by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0765306905 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Tomb (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack) by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0812580370 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Conspiracies (Repairman Jack) by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0812566998 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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