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The Murder of Crows
When the sky is drenched with death, there is nowhere to hide.
Deep in forest the mutant crows were growing ever restless. Feasting on the indigenous wildlife they had stripped the national park to its very bones. Now their cravings had pushed them in a search for other sources of flesh. Picking off lone walkers and weekend ramblers they had started to satisfy their bloodlust. But now the murder of crows was multiplying and their hunger was increasing, the thirst for human flesh was now too much to bear. Soon they would leave the darkness of their forest to enter the surrounding towns and city. No man woman or child would ever be safe again. The hunters had now become the hunted.
Deep in forest the mutant crows were growing ever restless. Feasting on the indigenous wildlife they had stripped the national park to its very bones. Now their cravings had pushed them in a search for other sources of flesh. Picking off lone walkers and weekend ramblers they had started to satisfy their bloodlust. But now the murder of crows was multiplying and their hunger was increasing, the thirst for human flesh was now too much to bear. Soon they would leave the darkness of their forest to enter the surrounding towns and city. No man woman or child would ever be safe again. The hunters had now become the hunted.
- GenresHorror
571 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 10, 2012
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About the author
David H. Sharp
7 books18 followersFrom - http://www.amazon.com/David-H.-Sharp/...
David was born in Usk South Wales in the early seventies. He has been writing for some years but his first novel 'The Murder of Crows' was released in 2012.
His second book 'The Dust' is the start of a new series and was released June 2013.
Now residing just outside Cardiff he is currently working on his second book in the 'Dust' series and hopes to release it in the winter of 2013.
You can follow him on twitter as David H Sharp@stoatshady.
Or email him on his author website davidsharp007@fsmail.net
David was born in Usk South Wales in the early seventies. He has been writing for some years but his first novel 'The Murder of Crows' was released in 2012.
His second book 'The Dust' is the start of a new series and was released June 2013.
Now residing just outside Cardiff he is currently working on his second book in the 'Dust' series and hopes to release it in the winter of 2013.
You can follow him on twitter as David H Sharp@stoatshady.
Or email him on his author website davidsharp007@fsmail.net
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August 7, 2014
Despite any contact between the author and myself, this is a fair and honest review, I take no prisoners.
571 pages are a lot of books. 571 pages comes from an author who has seriously got a great deal to say. A significant amount of the action in this book is raw and in your face. Let's just say children and animals don't mix, (I know a bird is not an animal - pedants).
I do find myself eye rolling like 'Mad Eye Mooney' when authors drop love stories into books that do not need them; however, there is a love story in this book, but I am glad to say I felt it developed naturally, suited the plot and it did not feel forced.
As previously stated this book is 571 pages, (525 in my edition - according to Goodreads), this might be considered to be superfluous by some, but there were parts of this book that I did not want to end, and I did indeed re-read whole chapters more than once, so I have no arguments with the length, the pacing or the plot.
There are a couple of real evil bastards in this book, and a great many unfortunate innocents. I like to come across an evil bastard now and again in a story, at arm's length obviously. Characterization stood out, it was extremely well done even the most minor of actors were given a story and drawn with an incredible realism. For me that gives David H. Sharpe an incredible edge, and it is the most Stephen King like trait, elicit sympathy from your readers for even the most minor of characters, give them time to show the reader the sequence of events from their point of view.
This may be a debut novel, but David H. Sharpe has shown me that he can 'do action', gut wrenching, blood letting, rip roaring, (I'm not going to say action again); The late James Herbert would have been proud, rats from, 'The Rats, the Lair and the Domain', have taken to the skies and are causing havoc in the Brecon Beacons.
I have just mentioned two of horrors greatest writers during this review, oh yes I did. 'The Murder of Crows' is as good as Herbert's 'The Rats'.
The Brecon Beacons maybe only a train ride away, but since reading this book I have given many an innocent pigeon a suspicious glance, so I cannot see myself getting on that train any time soon.
Now I am not going to skip over it, the edition that I read had a great many formatting issues, and it can be seen that some readers of this book understandably rated it accordingly, and I was aware of their comments prior to purchase. The author assures me that these issues have been fixed and the book has been reissued and he is to be applauded for both acknowledging this and rectifying the issue. I can always 'work around' formatting issues and in truth it did not spoil my enjoyment of this great book.
With these issues sorted I really do hope a great many readers discover this book which I believe needs a paperback edition.
I look forward to reading The Dust Book One - Bloodlust.
Urthwild
571 pages are a lot of books. 571 pages comes from an author who has seriously got a great deal to say. A significant amount of the action in this book is raw and in your face. Let's just say children and animals don't mix, (I know a bird is not an animal - pedants).
I do find myself eye rolling like 'Mad Eye Mooney' when authors drop love stories into books that do not need them; however, there is a love story in this book, but I am glad to say I felt it developed naturally, suited the plot and it did not feel forced.
As previously stated this book is 571 pages, (525 in my edition - according to Goodreads), this might be considered to be superfluous by some, but there were parts of this book that I did not want to end, and I did indeed re-read whole chapters more than once, so I have no arguments with the length, the pacing or the plot.
There are a couple of real evil bastards in this book, and a great many unfortunate innocents. I like to come across an evil bastard now and again in a story, at arm's length obviously. Characterization stood out, it was extremely well done even the most minor of actors were given a story and drawn with an incredible realism. For me that gives David H. Sharpe an incredible edge, and it is the most Stephen King like trait, elicit sympathy from your readers for even the most minor of characters, give them time to show the reader the sequence of events from their point of view.
This may be a debut novel, but David H. Sharpe has shown me that he can 'do action', gut wrenching, blood letting, rip roaring, (I'm not going to say action again); The late James Herbert would have been proud, rats from, 'The Rats, the Lair and the Domain', have taken to the skies and are causing havoc in the Brecon Beacons.
I have just mentioned two of horrors greatest writers during this review, oh yes I did. 'The Murder of Crows' is as good as Herbert's 'The Rats'.
The Brecon Beacons maybe only a train ride away, but since reading this book I have given many an innocent pigeon a suspicious glance, so I cannot see myself getting on that train any time soon.
Now I am not going to skip over it, the edition that I read had a great many formatting issues, and it can be seen that some readers of this book understandably rated it accordingly, and I was aware of their comments prior to purchase. The author assures me that these issues have been fixed and the book has been reissued and he is to be applauded for both acknowledging this and rectifying the issue. I can always 'work around' formatting issues and in truth it did not spoil my enjoyment of this great book.
With these issues sorted I really do hope a great many readers discover this book which I believe needs a paperback edition.
I look forward to reading The Dust Book One - Bloodlust.
Urthwild
May 1, 2016
Totally Fantastic!!
For more than half a century I have delighted in "watching" so called "Creature Features." Scary horror films with mutant spiders, mutant rodents, dinosaurs, you name it! And I have loved every one, even the not-so-well-done films. They were scary, they were funny, they were wonderful! And in all those many years, I had never READ a book about mutant anything!! This is and was my very first one, and I enjoyed every word, every page, from start to finish. It was very well written, I could "see" every scene with my mind's eye as clearly as if I were watching a film. And if someone out there is smart, they WILL make this into a film!
One of the best stories I've ever read. If you like "creature features," then this one is for you. You will not be disappointed. Thank you so much David Sharp, for a wonderful story that I will remember for a long time to come.
For more than half a century I have delighted in "watching" so called "Creature Features." Scary horror films with mutant spiders, mutant rodents, dinosaurs, you name it! And I have loved every one, even the not-so-well-done films. They were scary, they were funny, they were wonderful! And in all those many years, I had never READ a book about mutant anything!! This is and was my very first one, and I enjoyed every word, every page, from start to finish. It was very well written, I could "see" every scene with my mind's eye as clearly as if I were watching a film. And if someone out there is smart, they WILL make this into a film!
One of the best stories I've ever read. If you like "creature features," then this one is for you. You will not be disappointed. Thank you so much David Sharp, for a wonderful story that I will remember for a long time to come.
December 3, 2015
I tried and tried to make myself finish this book and just couldn't because it became almost a torture. While the story had an interesting premise, the writing was just very poor. The female characters were extremely poorly written, very cliche and stereotypically weak and in need of men to defend them. The dialogue was just stilted and unrealistic sounding. There were a lot of spelling and sentence structure errors which were glaring enough to be distracting to the reader. I think this author could probably use some more practice and training in polishing his writing so that it's more cohesive and believable. Like a good many of the indie author books I pick up as freebies on Amazon, it has need of some professional editing to clean up some of the problems.
December 11, 2013
I had high hopes but couldn't even finish this book. I wasn't engaged by it. All of the grammatical errors are probably to blame.
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