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The Necro Device
by
M.T. Dismuke
Mary and John Hilt are offered a contract to restore the Mandiev mansion built by the Mandiev brothers and isolated in the barren flatlands of eastern Colorado. Big pay and a getaway, it is what they desperately needed.
Unknown to Mary, there was an accident on the property years ago, one that killed hundreds of people from the surrounding four towns to include the Mandiev...more
Unknown to Mary, there was an accident on the property years ago, one that killed hundreds of people from the surrounding four towns to include the Mandiev...more
Paperback, Classic Edition, 356 pages
Published
January 3rd 2012
by DarkGate
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I can't even read this. I tried. When I got to the phrase, "drained the mouth of it's drooling fluids," I started giggling so hard I was crying.
Add that to how much of an asshole the author is, and I didn't see any reason to continue.
Oh, and to the people trying to scare me into silence, fuck you. Fuck you sideways with a broomstick.
Add that to how much of an asshole the author is, and I didn't see any reason to continue.
Oh, and to the people trying to scare me into silence, fuck you. Fuck you sideways with a broomstick.
Apr 22, 2012
Mallory Anne-Marie Forbes
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Horror, suspense, Supernatural
Recommended to Mallory Anne-Marie by:
Great Minds Think Aloud
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This novel literally begins with a bang, a lead-up to a graphic tragedy which changes the destiny of a famed family and of a community. Then, leaping ahead thirty years, a new path ensues. John and Mary Hilt of Colorado have contracted to prepare a long-abandoned estate for charity auction. Isolated, rural, located in a locale of suspicion, grief, and resentment, the mansion is an oddly-shaped structure, willed in perpetuity with an accompanying trust of twelve million dollars. Accompanied by th...more
I admit I was initially drawn to look at this book by the discussion floating around about the author's, ah, intemperate postings. The description of the story -- great tragedy, ruined lives, what happens 30 years on -- seemed interesting, however, and so I took a look at the sample. And since the author has blocked me from posting on his GR blog, the only place I have to comment is here.
The writing in The Necro Device is, as others have said, amateurish, immature, ponderous with unnecessary and...more
The writing in The Necro Device is, as others have said, amateurish, immature, ponderous with unnecessary and...more
What happens when you try to restore a mansion which has brought nothing but heartache to the people who live in torment of its past? What happens when rumours of evil beings haunting the manor begin to come true? What happens when the evil takes over your very soul?
The Mandiev brothers performed death defying feats under the circus top. One fateful night, during their final performance of the night, something went deadly wrong. Hundreds were massacred, including the Mandiev brothers. The town...more
The Mandiev brothers performed death defying feats under the circus top. One fateful night, during their final performance of the night, something went deadly wrong. Hundreds were massacred, including the Mandiev brothers. The town...more
Opening: This was one of my favorite parts of the book. The author puts the reader under a big top where the Mandiev brothers are preforming outrageous stunts one after another.
Plot: Mary, John, and Felicia for a little bit, try to fix up the Mandiev mansion for an auction, and Mary's mind is slowly changed by the house's dark secret. The book takes around a hundred pages to setup the mood of the town towards the mansion and to introduce the characters. It felt a little too long.
Spoiler-free end...more
Plot: Mary, John, and Felicia for a little bit, try to fix up the Mandiev mansion for an auction, and Mary's mind is slowly changed by the house's dark secret. The book takes around a hundred pages to setup the mood of the town towards the mansion and to introduce the characters. It felt a little too long.
Spoiler-free end...more
On reading the first chapter, I thought this is going to be good. Next, I proceed to the following couple of chapters and I have that sinking feeling, that I am going to be disappointed. It was the dialogue between the family, I found it grating and this was a bit of a let down all the way through the book. Having a teenager myself I could relate to the scenario although Felicia was at the worst end of the spectrum in being difficult, provocative and downright obnoxious. Once the story got under...more
I'm giving this one 3 1/2 stars. I kind of have mixed feelings about it and I've been trying to sort them out before I wrote this review. Overall a book I am glad I read. Definitely worthwhile.
First I'll list my pet peeves with this. Mr. Dismuke either had no editor or had a bad one. There were far too many "motionless waves" and the typo "shinning" when the intention was "shining" was repeated many times. "Click" and "Ding" are not dialogue and I didn't like them written as such. It's like the...more
First I'll list my pet peeves with this. Mr. Dismuke either had no editor or had a bad one. There were far too many "motionless waves" and the typo "shinning" when the intention was "shining" was repeated many times. "Click" and "Ding" are not dialogue and I didn't like them written as such. It's like the...more
Great original plot, great characters, good idea. The problem is that this book isn't very reader friendly. It needs a good edit, and for the author to use a thesaurus instead of repeating the same descriptive words & actions that a character does over and over. It also jumps around in tense & style alot. This book is a great example of a writer 'telling' emotion & not 'showing' any of it. I found myself not caring what happened to anyone, despite how hard I wanted to. I still finish...more
This book has a very interesting premise but I felt the implementation was lacking. I was never able to empathize with any of the characters in the story. I just didn't find any of them likeable and their motivations were not very convincing. The book really needs a good editor. The authors confuse "to" and "too" in a couple of places. There are a couple of instances of just using the wrong word, e.g. "retched" instead of "wretched". The formatting is poor, the paragraphs have no indentation nor...more
I should have known from the grammatical error in the book's description on Amazon that this was not going to go well.
The premise of "The Necro Device" is intriguing. In the interest of giving it a fair shot, I stuck with the book through the first chapter, but even that much was flush with "tell" rather than "show" writing, sloppy punctuation, erratic changes of tenses and clunky dialogue. For example, this sentence taken verbatim from the book:
"Drunkenly, a man stood up from his seat. 'Me!' He...more
The premise of "The Necro Device" is intriguing. In the interest of giving it a fair shot, I stuck with the book through the first chapter, but even that much was flush with "tell" rather than "show" writing, sloppy punctuation, erratic changes of tenses and clunky dialogue. For example, this sentence taken verbatim from the book:
"Drunkenly, a man stood up from his seat. 'Me!' He...more
This book was the most suspenseful book that I have ever read. It keep me wanting more I couldn't put it down I read it three times. You meet Mary and John Hilt and they have been hired to restore a mansion of the famous Mandiev brothers,They were circus performers that died in a freak accident, or was it?
This book puts you in Mary's shoes and you go through all this crazy delusional episodes with her. But when you find out close to the end the secret that you start trying to figure out in the b...more
This book puts you in Mary's shoes and you go through all this crazy delusional episodes with her. But when you find out close to the end the secret that you start trying to figure out in the b...more
Hmm, not sure where to start here. Overall, I enjoyed the book but found my "need to want to read it" waning. It started out super strong and about half way through it started to become slightly scattered and redundant in its narrative flow. I am not sure if the middle chapters were purposely done that way to create "fluff" to stretch the book out. But whether intentional or not, it kinda brought the book to a snore for a while. The ending was better but you could kind of predict the ending.
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Mar 28, 2013
M—
marked it as decline-to-read
Another one I'm only aware of because because of an Internet kerfuffle about it. Protip: If a book is brought to my attention via kerfuffle, I am almost certainly not going to be reading it.
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Influencing reviews:
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NO stars !! Clearly the writer of the book does not have a grasp of the English language and all the added unnecessary drivvle made this book very hard to read, much less finish. I would never read anything written by this author, if that's what you could call him, again! Not only that, when I placed my review on The Amazon website, when I wasn't sure I wanted to finish this stupid book, the author harrassed and bullied me on the website, calling me a troll and saying I did not read his book. In...more
Aside from some clunky dialogue and some rather bizarre conveniences that pop up throughout, this was a fun and intriguing read. The ending was a bit of a pleasant surprise. All in all I did enjoy reading this novel.
Fantastic. I loved the dialogue. Great 'show' story with very little 'tell'. Great plot, great story line, great twists all the way through the novel.
I finished reading Mandiev last night and I really enjoyed it. It was suspenseful, the characters were well developed and I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good read with a lot of action and twists. This is M. T. Dismuke's first book and well worth reading.
Some gripping and emotive stuff but I'm afraid to say I kept putting it down as the pace didn't seem to keep up
awful. painful dialogue.
Oct 20, 2012
Stefani
marked it as thanks-but-not-in-a-million-years
Shelves:
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Here's a FREE lesson: Just because I download a book for free, doesn't mean I owe the author anything. I don't owe them a review, a like, a tweet, or a fart as "gratitude" for being offered the book for free. I was highly interested in this book, but frankly, I don't have time for bratty entitlement. It was on my TBR, not anymore. Don't worry, I don't expect anything for this free lesson.
At least I hadn't bought this one yet.
At least I hadn't bought this one yet.
This book was awesome!!
The POV threw me off from the beginning and the story just dragged. It read very much like a screenplay (but not of a movie I'd want to see).
Tried reading it, couldn't finish. The writing was bad enough to be distracting.
May 19, 2013
Maria
marked it as to-read
May 17, 2013
Maxine
marked it as to-read
May 08, 2013
Galaxy
marked it as to-read
May 07, 2013
Christina
marked it as to-read
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I'm one-starring based on his particularly horrendous behavior.
Oct 23, 2012 02:17pm