Returning from a trip abroad to find the bodies of voodoo practitioners buried alive in her Brooklyn apartment, Haitian-born artist Angelina Hammel asks streetwise cop Reuben Abrams for help. Reprint.
Το βιβλιο ειχε ολες τις προδιαγραφες να γινει ενα καλο thriller, φονους,συνομωσιες, βουντου, μυστικα ταγματα αλλα.........και ενω ξεκιναει καλα με νευρο και γρηγορη πλοκη στη συνεχεια χανεται η μπαλα.Το τελος ειναι απογοητευτικο !!!!!!!!!!!!
Αρχίζει δυνατά, με βουντού στη Νέα Υόρκη, φονικά, κυβερνητικές συνωμοσίες, λίγο κοινωνικό προβληματισμό και μετά από τη μέση η πλοκή αρχίζει να χάνει τη συνοχή της και να πηδάει σαν αγριοκάτσικο από σκηνή σε σκηνή, για να φτάσει σε ένα τέλος που σε κάνει να απορείς πώς καταλήξατε κειπέρα.
Ειλικρινά κρίμα για έναν άνθρωπο με τόσο καλή γραφή να καταλήγει με ένα έργο χωρίς αρχή, μέση και τέλος, δίχως κεντρική πλοκή και με σκόρπια ανούσια γεγονότα για να καλύψει τις 477 σελίδες του.
Ένα δυνατό αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα με μεγάλη δόση μυστηρίου. Ικανοποιητική αφήγηση σε όλο το φάσμα της ιστορίας και ομολογώ πολύ καλή πρώτη επαφή με το συγγραφέα. Το προτείνω!
Night of the Seventh Darkness is a long-winded convoluted thriller that involves murder, slave-trade, and voodoo. It’s kind of all over the place and not always easy to follow. The story centers around Angelina Hammel, a Hatian living in Brooklyn. Her husband is murdered after a trip to Zaire. Later she finds corpses under her living room floor. Lt. Reuben Abrams of the NYPD is assigned to her case. Despite the fact that her husband just died, she has no problem bedding Abrams. They go to Haiti as part of a US government operation where there are murders aplenty and voodoo rituals.
The level of conspiracy is a bit much to take. The characterization is also especially weak. Most of all is that the story is all over the place. It lacks focus. If Easterman wants to write a story about voodoos and zombies, then he should write that story. To mix in government operations and cabals is unnecessary. There was not a whole lot to like about this novel. I would recommend skipping it.
A nivel descriptivo, resulta muy interesante, particularidades de diversas culturas/religiones, de Haití, y de la antropología. La trama es atrapante, te genera diversas sensaciones y te invita a seguir leyendo. Sin embargo, las tres estrellas son por el final, acotado y simplista para todo lo esbozado anteriormente.
Well, the style is simple but I love the end of this book. And what more, the end is superscary, just because it is so realistic. Do not read if you believe in happy end. And in this book it is not just a phrase. There is nothing as a happy in this one, also it is almost as normal life. Well, yeah, some parts are slightly overrated - e.g., I do not believe Easterman has ever studied a normal police life, even in Brooklyn. But mostly events in this fiction happen without a plot and without any hope. 'Cause life is not about hope. It is about a scale of things they just happen. That's why I love this book. That's why it is so scarry...
Wow. That was ... dark. The ending came as a complete surprise. I don't usually enjoy crime novels, but this one had enough other things going on that it made up for it.
Dosta neobična radnja sa puno neobičnih preokreta a još neobičnijim krajem. Vudu magija, tajne službe, svega tu ima, sve u svemu relativno interesantna knjiga.