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Evilway
Eight-year-old Rebecca Redhill and her family are to spend a family vacation on a houseboat on a lake in Utah, but their good times are sabotaged by the vengeful spirit of a centuries-old monster that seeks a body to possess--Rebecca's
- GenresHorror
288 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1990
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January 16, 2022
Joe Redhill and his son, Lance - workers at Winged Rock Marina - are out searching for their missing houseboat. When they find it, they climb aboard and discover stolen Anasazi artifacts and a gruesome dead body. Outside, up in the cliffs, is another. That's two of the three renters, but where is the other?
The Navajo elders, and Joe's wife, Anna want him to sell that houseboat, for fear of what has happened inside it.
"The man's chindi would have been trapped inside the boat. All the evil of his life, all his bad thoughts and wrong deeds were released as a ghost when he died. It would have been trapped inside, waiting for someone to come along. Waiting for a victim."
But Joe is adamant he needs the money from potential renters. So when his old friends come down to Utah for vacation and insist on that particular boat, Joe doesn't argue - for unlike most of his people, he is not superstitious.
Everything seems to be going okay for the two families on board, until Rebecca, the young daughter starts insisting there is something with a horrible face watching over her while she sleeps.
Anna sends Joe to check up on the guests, and while Joe Redhill does not believe anything supernatural is happening, he ultimately takes it upon himself to protect these families - and what he ends up discovering will be quite a shock.
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So, I finally got my hands on Evilway. It wasn't quite what I thought it would be, and I have a few questions/things to point out.
* SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT *
1) honestly this chindi didn't seem to give a hoot about possessing Rebecca. He got another body and was as happy as a clam in it. So I'm not sure where that whole thing even came from.
2) it talks about spiders on the back as if it were a focal plot point. I know where the cover comes from after finishing the book, and spiders were mentioned twice but really didn't have anything to do with anything and I'm not sure why they were talked about on the back cover.
3) the word evilway. The whole novel I was looking forward to learning what it meant. They never said! On the back it mentioned the word kept being whispered. Never.
4) it never said what happened to the third man from the rental at the beginning of the book.
The back cover could have had a way more accurate description. I was looking forward to reading about this creature trying to possess a little kid and that's definitely not what happened. But regardless, it was full of Native American folklore, which I love, so I enjoyed that. And it was good book.
The Navajo elders, and Joe's wife, Anna want him to sell that houseboat, for fear of what has happened inside it.
"The man's chindi would have been trapped inside the boat. All the evil of his life, all his bad thoughts and wrong deeds were released as a ghost when he died. It would have been trapped inside, waiting for someone to come along. Waiting for a victim."
But Joe is adamant he needs the money from potential renters. So when his old friends come down to Utah for vacation and insist on that particular boat, Joe doesn't argue - for unlike most of his people, he is not superstitious.
Everything seems to be going okay for the two families on board, until Rebecca, the young daughter starts insisting there is something with a horrible face watching over her while she sleeps.
Anna sends Joe to check up on the guests, and while Joe Redhill does not believe anything supernatural is happening, he ultimately takes it upon himself to protect these families - and what he ends up discovering will be quite a shock.
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So, I finally got my hands on Evilway. It wasn't quite what I thought it would be, and I have a few questions/things to point out.
* SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT *
1) honestly this chindi didn't seem to give a hoot about possessing Rebecca. He got another body and was as happy as a clam in it. So I'm not sure where that whole thing even came from.
2) it talks about spiders on the back as if it were a focal plot point. I know where the cover comes from after finishing the book, and spiders were mentioned twice but really didn't have anything to do with anything and I'm not sure why they were talked about on the back cover.
3) the word evilway. The whole novel I was looking forward to learning what it meant. They never said! On the back it mentioned the word kept being whispered. Never.
4) it never said what happened to the third man from the rental at the beginning of the book.
The back cover could have had a way more accurate description. I was looking forward to reading about this creature trying to possess a little kid and that's definitely not what happened. But regardless, it was full of Native American folklore, which I love, so I enjoyed that. And it was good book.
November 15, 2010
Paperback from the thrift store.
Not horrible but not great, either. 2 1/2 stars.
Not horrible but not great, either. 2 1/2 stars.
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