Forsaken - A Novel of Art, Evil, and Insanity

Andrew Van Wey

Greywood Bay

2013

458 páginas

15h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780984015719

YOU’RE LIVING THE DREAM...

A beautiful house, a loving wife. Two kids, a dog, and a tenure track professorship teaching art at the local university. Your name is Daniel Rineheart. You’ve got it all.

...BUT ALL DREAMS MUST END.

For this autumn heralds the arrival of a mysterious painting. No name. No date. No signature or frame. A disturbing work of grotesque perfection: two children with cruel eyes, a window onto an endless field, and a dying tree on top of a hill.

A work of art... that changes with each viewing.

SO BEGINS THE NIGHTMARE...

...Where wretched children crawl from a canvas prison to stalk the quiet halls of this happy home.

...Where painted clocks tick-tock away in the dark hours before dawn, and a missing dog whimpers from between the walls.

...Where all answers lead to a dark artist and an impossible creation, a cursed canvas with a twisted past...

...AND A HORROR THAT WILL DEVOUR ALL.

Curl up, if you dare, with a dark novel readers are calling: “Beautifully written” — “A Must Read!” — “Stunning” — “The Scariest book EVER!”

FORSKEN is an intelligent blend of ghost story, suburban supernatural thriller, haunted house, and mystery. Perfectly written for fans of early Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Peter Straub, it’s a terrifying tale of secrets and lies, of nightmares made flesh; where the scariest stories are the ones that coldly whisper into your ear until madness and death are a welcome rest.

Lock your door.

Turn on the lights.

Do NOT read FORSAKEN late at night.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

Confesso que esperava uma história super assustadora, que me deixasse super tensa, o que infelizmente não aconteceu aqui.

Não me entendam errado: o livro é bom. Mas a sinopse vendeu uma história que não aconteceu. Dizia que: “NÃO leia FORSAKEN tarde da noite.” Não, não é pra tanto.

Também achei que o livro demorou demais pra desenrolar. As partes “assustadoras mesmo” passam a acontecer depois de 50%. Antes disso, é só ambientação da história.

Acho que comigo rolou uma decepção. Talvez se eu tivesse lido em português também teria sido diferente.