From
the back cover
“Everything
changed for Gil Stewart on the day he saw the old man die. Gil had witnessed
the bizarre accident on the highway and stopped to help. The old man couldn’t
be saved, but just before he died he clutched Gil’s shirt and whispered a
warming: ‘The Keepers are coming!’
“That
was when Gil’s nightmare began. At first he thought it was merely odd, a series
of weird coincidences. Household pets started acting strangely. Zoo animals
escaped. But now he can see a pattern emerging, a chilling reminder from a past
that he can’t─or won’t─remember. As the true horror becomes clear, and terror
builds upon terror, Gil can only await the coming of. . . the Keepers.”
Review
Keepers
is
a fun, oddball, sometimes unpredictable and often chatty read. Normally, novels
with first-person POVs engender an instant ‘nope, not reading that’
response in me─if I want to read a YA novel POV-staple, I’ll read a YA
novel. That said, in Keepers the first-person POV approach makes its main character's issues (loneliness, regret, etc.) and wild
hallucinations go down easier. A mix of surreal fantasy,
Biblical stories, nature-love and traditional horror, this is a unique story
that could’ve been edited better, but still worth reading for its fast pace, mostly
good writing and effective mood-setting.
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