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Descent
Unwilling to accept the fact that the baby she is carrying is dead, Vickie Laster falls into a deep and troubled depression, attracting an unspeakable evil and unwittingly creating a doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
- GenresHorror
354 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1991
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October 6, 2021
Dell Abyss 9/43
this is serving to be a good reminder for myself that instead of stubbornly trying to read the entire publishing line from Dell Abyss, i should probably just stick to the better acclaimed authors and the titles that interest me. my first encounter with Ron Dee was his first title in the Abyss line, Dusk, which was mostly a really juvenile and dull vampire story with weak social undertones, and while this is an improvement, it’s not really by much
the first 60 or so pages are actually pretty fun, the schlocky sort of succubus possessing a shock-rockstar gone mad is more fun that it should be, and honestly should have just been the whole story. then it blunders the whole thing by tying it into the main plot-a woman who thinks of herself as lesser since she can’t have children. mostly just really sucks after that, occasionally has some fun scares but mostly just really bad, and honestly makes no fucking sense
this is serving to be a good reminder for myself that instead of stubbornly trying to read the entire publishing line from Dell Abyss, i should probably just stick to the better acclaimed authors and the titles that interest me. my first encounter with Ron Dee was his first title in the Abyss line, Dusk, which was mostly a really juvenile and dull vampire story with weak social undertones, and while this is an improvement, it’s not really by much
the first 60 or so pages are actually pretty fun, the schlocky sort of succubus possessing a shock-rockstar gone mad is more fun that it should be, and honestly should have just been the whole story. then it blunders the whole thing by tying it into the main plot-a woman who thinks of herself as lesser since she can’t have children. mostly just really sucks after that, occasionally has some fun scares but mostly just really bad, and honestly makes no fucking sense
October 5, 2024
357 pages on my day off? Easy. I've been using Ron Dee novels as a way to fill up a "worst books ever" chart, along with a few other authors, but I really wasn't prepared for this. This psychological / supernatural horror novel makes an immediate point of obsessively vulgar language and overly-violent scenarios which are more disgusting than horrific. And the psychological story is extremely slow-paced due to so many random scenes dedicated to melodramatic screaming and negligence of character development. It's a shame, because the concept was decent and could've been great, but the delivery only had a couple decent scenes scattered around a terrible story and Ron Dee's general style. This book is easily the worst of the Ron Dee books I've read.
June 9, 2018
Here we're into the next book in my Abyss reading project, and Lordy, what a mess it is. We have the rock star trope, the usual excess that comes with rock and roll and horror, and then a psychosexual ghost story that rambles about without much point. Amidst all that is a woman who has recently lost a baby and is now unable to have one, and is so hung up on how much she can't possibly be a woman now that it could only written by a man. It's ridiculous, overwrought, sensationalized, and pointless. Is this what the whole genre was like during its heyday? If so, what the hell was I thinking that I read these books?
Dee's first book in the line, Dusk, was pretty bad, but Descent is somehow even worse. Aren't writers supposed to get better with experience? This book is an insult to the good books also published in the Abyss line. The best thing I can say about it is that it's not nearly as bad as Obsessed by Rick R. Reed, but we're still scraping the bottom of the barrel either way. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
Dee's first book in the line, Dusk, was pretty bad, but Descent is somehow even worse. Aren't writers supposed to get better with experience? This book is an insult to the good books also published in the Abyss line. The best thing I can say about it is that it's not nearly as bad as Obsessed by Rick R. Reed, but we're still scraping the bottom of the barrel either way. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
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July 21, 2011Stephen King endorsed the entire Dell Abyss Horror line. Here is his blurb:
"Thank you for introducing me to the remarkable line of novels currently being issued under Dell's Abyss imprint. I have given a great many blurbs over the last twelve years or so, but this one marks two firsts: first unsolicited blurb (I called you) and the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books. In terms of quality, production, and plain old story-telling reliability (that's the bottom line, isn't it), Dell's new line is amazingly satisfying...a rare and wonderful bargain for readers. I hope to be looking into the Abyss for a long time to come."
"Thank you for introducing me to the remarkable line of novels currently being issued under Dell's Abyss imprint. I have given a great many blurbs over the last twelve years or so, but this one marks two firsts: first unsolicited blurb (I called you) and the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books. In terms of quality, production, and plain old story-telling reliability (that's the bottom line, isn't it), Dell's new line is amazingly satisfying...a rare and wonderful bargain for readers. I hope to be looking into the Abyss for a long time to come."
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