When Blaize Donovan runs away from her cheating fiancé and into the path of an oncoming truck, a head injury leaves her hearing voices and seeing visions of what she calls “The Rage.” After a vision shows her setting her fiancé’s house on fire, she wakes to learn that he’s burned to death. Were the haunting visions of her lighting the fire a true memory or just wishful thinking?
Meanwhile, Spyder Rains, a burned-out rock musician trying to get his life together is also having visions. In one vision, he seduces a mysterious woman, then strangles her to death. The visions have him scared – even though he knows he’s not a killer.
And then he meets the woman in his Blaize Donovan. Their connection is undeniable, but more frightening are the murderous urges he starts to experience.
When Blaize and Spyder receive mysterious invitations to something known as “The Play,” it puts them on the trail of a reclusive horror author with a grisly past. As they unravel the truth, the pair are shocked to discover that the characters in his books bear an uncanny resemblance.
And that the horrific scenes mirror their own lives – including the death of Blaize’s fiancé.
Somehow, the horror author is controlling their lives.
Now, Blaize and Spyder must work together to find the author before their nightmarish visions become their new reality.
Writer uses three words where one would have done. Writing is too wordy. Goes overboard on descriptions. Near the end of the book she tells the reader about a character (that was introduced much earlier in the book) and has to remind us that “he’d always been a country boy” and “loved hiking and camping.” This is 14 pages before the end of this 308 page book. We already know this character!
She also had the need to describe what the woods looked like in all four seasons of the year that this character is walking through . Why? Answer: because this writer has diarrhea of the keyboard.
This is the equivalent of a painter using a pint of paint where two brush strokes would have been perfect.
An intriguing story that grips the reader from the beginning and holds them hostage until the end. pine tingling. Lots of twist and turns. A book for fans of Stephen King and John Saul horror stories.