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Until the Sun

Chandler Morrison

Start date: February 14, 2025

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UNTIL THE SUN [2019] By Chandler Morrison
My Review 4.0 Stars

I read this novel as a Buddy Read last month with a Goodreads friend who is a passionate fan of Chandler Morrison. It could be said that I am just as fascinated by his works.

“Until the Sun” was published by Death’s Head Press in the Fall of 2019. The length of the novel is an impressive 409 pages. Ratings on Goodreads (4.1) were surprisingly close to those reported by readers on Amazon (4.4). That said, the total book sales collectivel UNTIL THE SUN [2019] By Chandler Morrison
My Review 4.0 Stars

I read this novel as a Buddy Read last month with a Goodreads friend who is a passionate fan of Chandler Morrison. It could be said that I am just as fascinated by his works.

“Until the Sun” was published by Death’s Head Press in the Fall of 2019. The length of the novel is an impressive 409 pages. Ratings on Goodreads (4.1) were surprisingly close to those reported by readers on Amazon (4.4). That said, the total book sales collectively (from both sites) were low at 400+ which suggests that it was a well-received novel by a select number of buyers. Is Chandler Morrison’s works an acquired taste? Hmmm. One of the 5-Star Customer Reviews on Amazon expressed my own thoughts quite well in that Chandler writes in “a very literary and beautiful way” and that he has such “a way with his wielding of prose”. Another 5-Star Customer Review on Amazon zeroed in on one of my questions about the novel’s writing style. That may be a trivial or irrelevant point to many readers, but I thought about it a lot and scratched my head. The reviewer in question opined that (the writing style) “puts you in the character’s shoes”. In fact, I felt strongly that Morrison had chosen one of the least used POVs in literature (2nd Person POV which uses the pronoun “You”). It is remarkable that Morrison was innately able to masterfully maintain this difficult Second Person Point of View for the entire 409-page novel. I believe it is safe to say that with this author’s consummate skill and mastery of the written word that this method never felt gimmicky and was successful in placing the reader in the proverbial hot seat for comprehensive range of effects. These essentially ran the full gamut of human emotions. Morrison was able to tap into my empathy, horrify me, break my heart, surprise me, and so much more.

I spent what seemed like endless hours with this novel and I loved it but was disappointed by what I felt was a fundamental betrayal by the plot twist which was evident well before the end of the novel. I started writing an intense review this morning and went off the tracks. Nobody wants to read a novella. I would agree that the common thread was disaffected youth and there is a nod to the intensity and passion of a person's "first love". There is additionally the cynical belief that there is no free will. I have no intention of putting readers through Hades to support that conviction. It is only my opinion. I do love Morrison's works, and it may very well be an "acquired taste". ...more

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Oct 24, 2020 Brad Tierney rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Well, Chandler has solidified himself as one of my all time favorite authors on the planet with this story, one of the sickest vampire tales ever created. Bleak, and I mean way, way bleak, an absolutely pulverizing assault on the senses at times, ohhhhhhhh JFC I’ll never forget this book. Ever. Brutality, truthfulness, pain, so much pain, gore, gore, gore, good God almighty the gore.

Characters I grew to loathe, love, loathe again.

An unrelenting pacing, I read this ...more

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Feb 21, 2024 Joey Frick rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book was awesome! I couldn’t stop reading this it just continued to get more and more great until the very end! Very much recommend this book to horror fans!

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