So for my dear friend Char Hardins birthday, I will post her most awesome review of Electric Angel!!!! No one does reviews like Char. NOBODY!!!! And this was written before I knew her. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU!!!!! And if the link is still good as to where you posted this, I shall happily put it! Until then here it is AND thank you once more for putting me up (and putting up with me) at the World Horror Convention. We need to do that again REAL soon!!!! : ELECTRIC ANGEL Writer: Sue Dent Reviewed by: Char Hardin (1-5) 4 Category: Horror-Science Fiction ELECTRIC ANGEL “I got Whiplash and Paper cuts from reading ELECTRIC ANGEL…Could…Not put it down! Char Hardin Terminal patient Anna Chadwick pregnant with twins is told her cancer would not allow her to live or carry to term her babies and to make it worse they tell her one is stillborn. She prayed for a miracle and it was an otherworldly entity that answered. Anna’s miracle promised to save her children. It made one startling request, which the dying woman eagerly agreed to the price in order to save her unborn babies. What a simple idea, when in mortal danger we pray and something answered this woman and with this promise came life, adventure, betrayal, bravery, love and sacrifice. I truly could not put down this book once I started reading! Sue Dent’s storytelling was vivid and the scenes with Anna and the Entity were hair-raising and interesting. What she was offering was mind bending and thought provoking. What I liked too, was that it was explained in simple layman’s terms and not so technical my head throbbed with pain for trying to figure it out. Her descriptions were solid and not over the top or over done, she didn’t flood the pages with unnecessary flowery descriptions and that is something I admire. I do not like overly descriptive stories…just tell me what you have to say and then let the storyteller’s words show me the action or the scenery. The characters were quickly placed in emotional situations, the viewer just couldn’t help but become concerned for the welfare of Anna and her babies and then what happened on the day of their birth, it was fast acting and scary and emotional…I shed tears during the aftermath of the babies births of happiness that they made it and then with how it was handled…I felt that raw paternal bond that was ripped from Anna and her husband Zachary as the bad men arrived and kicked the story into maximum overdrive. I took the book to the English Tea Room in Covington, Louisiana Monday and started re-reading and couldn’t believe how my time got away from me, I became immersed in the story and 3 hours passed and I finished with a gasp and cry. The patrons sitting around me laughed and I sat back and ordered a fresh pot of tea as mine had long sense grown cold. I see that on the back it lists the book as Urban Horror/Science Fiction, although there were elements of terror for the characters, I probably would not classify this as a true horror but more a Dark Urban Fantasy with elements of science fiction thrown in for the electrical devices and created for the characters. I found the story to be original and that is major plus with me, finding something original in a literary world where it has been done before. There may be other stories with this storyline…but as of now, I have not read them. The characters were well fleshed out and likeable and moving and the evil bad characters were deliciously decadent, especially Mr. Fritz of Anderson Electric. His machinations and methodology was devious. He had it all figured out except for the power of love and maternal instinct even if of a different Nature, but his flawed thinking was expertly written and his undoing was well hidden. Reading Sue Dent’s characters were like a Frankenstein moment, when the switch was thrown and Dr. Frankenstein declared the monster “ALIVE”…Sue Dent’s characters leapt off the page and into my mind, as alive as the viewer reading them. As a horror film reviewer, I had to smile at the Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis references made in connection to one of her injured characters. Actually, I believed I laughed out loud when I saw the reference. The following excerpt is taken from the book: “Without warning and much to the nurse’s surprise, the patient’s eyes sprang open and in a Michael Myers fashion, an arm shot up. Fingers wrapped the nurse’s wrist in a viselike grip…” “Having watched and absorbed his share of horror movies in his day, he stopped short of pushing through the swinging double doors that led out and added, Or Dr. Loomis.” ELECTRIC ANGEL is a fast read topping out with 177 pages and engrossing, time literally passes while you are entranced and reading. I think my only criticisms for the book was when there was a time jump, that I had to go back and re-read because I missed something. My suggestion would be under the change of chapter when a jump in time is necessary to include, 20 years later… tag or something separate from the text. Because I was so caught up in the story, I was reading fast and I must have glossed over, where the time change was noted. It created a moment of fogginess, that made me back up and re-read two chapters to see where I gotten lost and sure enough when I went back and slowed down, I saw where in the text it was mentioned and my fogginess was cleared away. Other than that, the book was solid. I would (and will) recommend this book to science fiction/Urban Paranormal/Dark Fantasy and yes even to horror fans. There is a little bit of everything in this story and when it was over…had me wishing I had another of Sue Dent’s stories to reach for and continue the spellbinding enchantment, that I had fallen under while reading ELECTRIC ANGEL.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:56:07 +0000
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