Zombie monsters struck from the mold of countless drive-in B movies supply mayhem and gore in Darkness Falling. Their onslaught is heralded one day...
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Aug 30, 2011
Kwesi 章英狮
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Peter Crowther currently looking in the window and everything outside are all things bright and beautiful. Well, everything seems fine, people are walking, cars are beeping and animals are buzzing like any ordinary days. Then, a beam of light appears. In a second everybody gone even animals that are busy doing their jobs, and the world is in chaos. Perfectly destroyed and only few are given the chance to survive.
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Nov 02, 2011
Amanda
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If you're looking for a horror novel, something to scary you in the wee hours of the night, this isn't the book. I'm not saying I disliked it, but it definitely was not as fulfilling as I would have liked. Darkness Falling reads much like a Stephen King novel, maybe too much but without the impact you get from a King story. It was enjoyable enough that I finished it, but it had zero "Wow" factor.
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Also, the zombies of Darkness Falling are a little difficult to take seriously. More...
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Nov 29, 2011
Silver Thistle
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Hoo boy! This is a good one! Haven't read anything similar in years! I'm not talking about subject matter though, I'm talking about writing style. LOVED it. I've never read anything by Peter Crowther before and if I'm honest I've never even heard of him before this boook caught my attention but right from the very first page of the prologue I felt like I was meeting an old friend after a long absence.
Why? How? Because it's like this guy is channelling my coming of age book hero, Stephe More...
Why? How? Because it's like this guy is channelling my coming of age book hero, Stephe More...
Sep 21, 2011
Mel
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One dark night a bright light suddenly blinds you and when you can see again, everyone has disappeared. Everyone in the house, everyone in the town, everyone on the plane. That is the starting point for this creepy and rather chilling story. Only a few people are left...and not all of them are particularly sane... And then twenty-four hours later, the light comes again and this time it brings the missing people back.
The premise of this novel is so intriguing – people disappearing and More...
The premise of this novel is so intriguing – people disappearing and More...
Sep 17, 2011
Sharon
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Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther is a science fiction novel due to be released on September 27th. It is the first book in the Forever Twilight Series and is comprised of two novellas that were previously published and edited and rewritten into a single book with two more to follow in the series. When I requested the book from NetGalley I was very excited to read the book, the story had great promise, though not an extremely original premise. A white flash of light blankets the world, and every
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Aug 14, 2011
Birgit
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Darkness Falling is the first part of a new series by Peter Crowther and could probably be best described as Zombies go Science Fiction.
The idea itself isn't so new, but promising nonetheless. A bright light makes most people suddenly disappear. Those left behind are trying to understand what has happened when not a day later the light and the missing return. And they've changed.
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The idea itself isn't so new, but promising nonetheless. A bright light makes most people suddenly disappear. Those left behind are trying to understand what has happened when not a day later the light and the missing return. And they've changed.
Admittedly the premise had me hooked immediately and so did the first pages of the book. Every single one More...
Jun 28, 2011
Kristen
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Darkness Fallen, the first in the Forever Twilight series, by Peter Crowther is the first in a new series. But it felt like it should have been the first few chapters in one book, not the first book in a series.
I made the mistake of reading a review by someone else of this book. Now I can’t find anything original to say. But I guess that’s fitting since the book too wasn’t very original. At least not to some More...
Darkness Fallen, the first in the Forever Twilight series, by Peter Crowther is the first in a new series. But it felt like it should have been the first few chapters in one book, not the first book in a series.
I made the mistake of reading a review by someone else of this book. Now I can’t find anything original to say. But I guess that’s fitting since the book too wasn’t very original. At least not to some More...
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Sep 15, 2011
DNF. Life is too short to force yourself to keep reading.
I requested Darkness Falling from NetGalley because I liked the premise: Four people inside a radio station find they may be the only normal people left alive after a strange bright light turns the rest of the town in pod-people zombies. I like zombies. But well-over 100 pages in, imagine my surprise when I have yet to see the walking undead. What I did see was nothing like the blurb... except the white light.
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I requested Darkness Falling from NetGalley because I liked the premise: Four people inside a radio station find they may be the only normal people left alive after a strange bright light turns the rest of the town in pod-people zombies. I like zombies. But well-over 100 pages in, imagine my surprise when I have yet to see the walking undead. What I did see was nothing like the blurb... except the white light.
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Jul 09, 2011
Imogen
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I really wanted to like this book, and I really did try to get past the cover. However, this is one of those books where you really do need to like the cover to like the book because...well, it pretty much explains everything about the "zombielike" villains.
The dialogue in this book was horrible. Especially what was spoken in each character's head. The idea of what was going on really interested me at first--okay, a bright light, everyone's gone and...wait a minute, now th More...
The dialogue in this book was horrible. Especially what was spoken in each character's head. The idea of what was going on really interested me at first--okay, a bright light, everyone's gone and...wait a minute, now th More...
Sep 26, 2011
Guillermo
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Jul 30, 2011
Annmarie
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Darkness Falling: The Forever Twilight Series
By Peter Crowther
In a blink of an eye and a bright flash of light most the human population is gone. When the second flash comes everyone is back but there not the people they used to be. What well the few remaining people do to stay alive.
I found it a bit hard to get into at first but I stuck with the book and soon found that it was interesting and very different. There was a lot going on in the book and it changed from one gro More...
By Peter Crowther
In a blink of an eye and a bright flash of light most the human population is gone. When the second flash comes everyone is back but there not the people they used to be. What well the few remaining people do to stay alive.
I found it a bit hard to get into at first but I stuck with the book and soon found that it was interesting and very different. There was a lot going on in the book and it changed from one gro More...
Aug 02, 2011
Jackie
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Darkness Falling is the first book in the Forever Twilight series. It starts off as just an average day, and then there is a blinding, white light. Afterwards, there are only a few people left. Everyone else is just gone. As the survivors are trying to figure out what happened and come to terms with the fact that the people around them have disappeared, there is another flash of light. This time all those people are back, but they aren’t what they appear to be.
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Oct 10, 2011
Cheryl
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Martha and her husband, Ronnie have boarded a plane to head back to Atlanta. Things are going alright until all of a sudden a bright light flashes and Martha is gone. It seems that Martha is not the only one missing. Most of the passengers on the plane have disappeared. The few people who are left are in for a big surprise, when the others return. Though not the same way that they left.
I wanted this book to be so much better than it actually turned out to be. As I was reading it, im More...
I wanted this book to be so much better than it actually turned out to be. As I was reading it, im More...
Jul 17, 2011
the golden witch.
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Okay, I really tried to like this one. Honestly, I did. The blurb made it sound really interesting, a collision of genres, and a lot of popular authors said they liked it. I don't know. It felt very dry to me, had a number of cliches thrown into the mix, and generally put me off. To be put off in this genre for me, I think, is a first - I usually love both the alien and zombie genres, and I thought that this would go over well with me. It didn't, needless to say.
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Oct 30, 2011
Sara E.
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I feel like this book has a lot of potential but didn't quite cut it for me. A random flash of light that makes a large part of the population disappear, and the survivors (or the Left Behind) have to deal with survival/life after the flash. The problem here is that there are too many characters (that are not fleshed out well enough), who are flawed and cliched and it never seems to come together in the space of the book. There is the Paul Giammatti clone, the angelic child who seems to have ESP
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Nov 12, 2009
Jason
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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)
Regular readers know that in the last year, I've ended up becoming a pretty big fan of PS Publishing, a British small press headed up by Peter Crowther and specializing in challenging New Weird literature. And so that's why I was so excited to recently receive the first two volumes of Cro More...
Regular readers know that in the last year, I've ended up becoming a pretty big fan of PS Publishing, a British small press headed up by Peter Crowther and specializing in challenging New Weird literature. And so that's why I was so excited to recently receive the first two volumes of Cro More...
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Aug 14, 2011
Pixie Lynn
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Thank you NetGalley and Angry Robot for the opportunity to read.
This will perhaps be one of my shortest reviews I've probably written. There's not really much to say about this one other than I just didn't connect with Darkness Falling as much as I had hoped I would. I usually enjoy a zombie tale, but there was just too much going on here at times that my head spun. While it wasn't bad, for once, I should say in my honest opinion I thought that this felt more... scripted... than any More...
This will perhaps be one of my shortest reviews I've probably written. There's not really much to say about this one other than I just didn't connect with Darkness Falling as much as I had hoped I would. I usually enjoy a zombie tale, but there was just too much going on here at times that my head spun. While it wasn't bad, for once, I should say in my honest opinion I thought that this felt more... scripted... than any More...
Oct 27, 2011
Lindis
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I really enjoyed this book. In the spirit of "The Stand" by Steven King, the reader is introduced to several different charachters, far apart from each other (but within the Denver area) with different lives, and in different times of their lives. The charachters range from a sweet innocent little girl named Angel with the ability to see "visions" of the past present and future, to a relatively young man named Virgil, who is a twisted serial killer. This style of writing cann
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Nov 14, 2011
Gef
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One of my favorite sci-fi movies from the mid-20th century is Invasion of the Body Snatchers, so when I checked the back cover of this book I realized I had an immediate want to read it. Whether aliens, zombies, or whatever the monster is, the concept of losing your identity and becoming part of a collective is frightening.
Darkness Falling starts off with a flash of light, piercing bright to a painful degree, and in its wake all but a few people disappear. Gone. Like a Rapture. Ronni More...
Darkness Falling starts off with a flash of light, piercing bright to a painful degree, and in its wake all but a few people disappear. Gone. Like a Rapture. Ronni More...
Jan 14, 2012
DNF.
I didn't want to stop reading it in the sense that I didn't want another horror novel to fail but I really just couldn't take it anymore. That blurb? It's misleading. Up to the point where I stopped reading, somewhere between a quarter and a third of the way through, not only was it from the POV of the radio people, but there was also some guy on a plane, a crazy old lady that talked to voices in her head and a serial killer. And they were all interpreting the same thing for far to More...
I didn't want to stop reading it in the sense that I didn't want another horror novel to fail but I really just couldn't take it anymore. That blurb? It's misleading. Up to the point where I stopped reading, somewhere between a quarter and a third of the way through, not only was it from the POV of the radio people, but there was also some guy on a plane, a crazy old lady that talked to voices in her head and a serial killer. And they were all interpreting the same thing for far to More...
Feb 05, 2012
Bethica
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First of all, I gotta say I got this book free from goodreads and was really really stoked about it. I waited and waited day after day for the mailman to deliver this puppy into my paws so I could sink my teeth into a post-apocolyptic book with zombies in it. What better way to spend hours and hours of usually droll time. Then I actually started to read...
First of all, the writing is horrible. The first few chapters make you scratch your head and re-read the same sentence four or fiv More...
First of all, the writing is horrible. The first few chapters make you scratch your head and re-read the same sentence four or fiv More...
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Oct 02, 2011
Paul
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It was a typical all-American backwater – until the night the monsters came.
When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light that cuts off communication with the outside world, they discover that something has taken the place of their friends and fellow townfolk, and imbued them with malign intentions. Little do they know, the phenomenon is not unique to the town of Jesman’s Bend…
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When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light that cuts off communication with the outside world, they discover that something has taken the place of their friends and fellow townfolk, and imbued them with malign intentions. Little do they know, the phenomenon is not unique to the town of Jesman’s Bend…
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Sep 14, 2011
Shandy Jo
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An extremely frustrating book. Multiple points of view, which in itself didn't bother me, the problem was that they seemed randomly strewn through the book. They didn't farther the plot in fact I found it made the book more confusing. The flow was screwed up in a couple places which is something that bugs me to no end. A doors closed behind some one then it's open so the creatures can get in. This is something that will jar me right out of the book, no matter what.
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Aug 04, 2011
J.C.
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I wanted to love this novel. I really did. The cover made me giggle (in a good way – zombie type things with gloves and aviator glasses? HA!) and the blurb sounded interesting. Sadly, it just didn’t live up to my expectations.
Don’t get me wrong, the writing was okay, the characters a true-blue motley crew, but the bulk of this book was about bringing the different groups of main characters together into one place and the real plot only starts when we get to the end of the novel. Thi More...
Don’t get me wrong, the writing was okay, the characters a true-blue motley crew, but the bulk of this book was about bringing the different groups of main characters together into one place and the real plot only starts when we get to the end of the novel. Thi More...
Oct 12, 2009
Stephen
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"At a little after 3.15, the whole world had turned white, just for an instant, and then everything had gone back to normal." But of course it didn't. Everyone has gone, zapped out of existence in the middle of the night, and the four people left at KMRT are all that's left. Till the light flashes again, the next night, and then things get really strange.
A review by me of this book is a bit redundant, given the glittering literary stars lined up on its first few pages to pr More...
A review by me of this book is a bit redundant, given the glittering literary stars lined up on its first few pages to pr More...
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Oct 24, 2011
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Peter Crowther is a British journalist and author whose short stories have been adapted for TV in the UK and U.S. He has several excellent horror/fantasy novels under his belt, and Darkness Falling is definitely going to join that group. Think the rapture meets aliens, zombies and an apocalyptic world, and you’re on the right track. Read the rest of my review, enter the giveaway and check out the giveaway hop of about 400 book review blogs/web More...
Peter Crowther is a British journalist and author whose short stories have been adapted for TV in the UK and U.S. He has several excellent horror/fantasy novels under his belt, and Darkness Falling is definitely going to join that group. Think the rapture meets aliens, zombies and an apocalyptic world, and you’re on the right track. Read the rest of my review, enter the giveaway and check out the giveaway hop of about 400 book review blogs/web More...
Sep 16, 2011
Traci
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I wanted to like this book and the idea of it is interesting but this book really bothered me on so many different levels.
For one, I did not really care for the writing style. It just isn't something that I normally go for. Anytime a action scene pops up where a lot of different noises are happening around the characters, the writing changes to literally add the noise to the paragraph. I did not care for that.
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For one, I did not really care for the writing style. It just isn't something that I normally go for. Anytime a action scene pops up where a lot of different noises are happening around the characters, the writing changes to literally add the noise to the paragraph. I did not care for that.
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Nov 28, 2011
David
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This is an expanded and somewhat rewritten version of Darkness Darkness first published in 2002. As such, it adds significant amount of detail about our survivors and the challenge they face but, in the rewriting, there has been a slight loss of pace. Nevertheless, it does build to a good conclusion and leaves us set up for the second exciting episode.
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Oct 24, 2011
April
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I got halfway through this book before I was so bored that I flipped through it to see if it looked like anything was ever explained. This book is now sitting in my pile to donate. I couldn't do it. The story is slow-moving, uninteresting, and not scary. And really, I only need to hear about how people lose control of their bodily functions when they're scared or dead a maximum of four times.
Nov 13, 2011
Jennifer
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First Reads win! This book is definitely not my cup of tea... I did read it all though and felt like it deserved 3 stars. It is a genre I would have typically avoided. It was fascinating once I got In the meat and action.... (this did not occur until 150 pages in the book and left me wondering what is going to happen...slow beginning crazy ending) I am quite sure I should have read it before I went to bed. A flash of light crosses the sky taking billions of people... A few though are left untouc
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