Entity

by Nina Mandelik

Ray O'Connor, a normally loving family man, begins to suffer violent bursts of temper, and soon only Mike Triplett--a man with a special inner eye--realizes that an evil exorcised a century before has returned to seek revenge.

Genres: Horror

10 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1991

Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 1 out of 5]

There was some kind of entity here for sure. I finished this book against my better judgement. Almost every fiber of my being was screaming at me just to close this trash and move on to something better. I just gritted my teeth and marched on. I really didn't care how this ended or who died. I just kept reading, which makes me believe that there was some kind of power to this tripe. Too bad the author couldn't possess the ability to write a decent story.

The characters were boring. The setting was drab. The Entity was lame. The cover was decent enough. Once again, you can't judge a book by its cover. Give this a pass.

[Nick Spacek · Rating 1 out of 5]

i thought i was halfway through the entity, only to realize i was actually almost done, and i'd still never had a single plot point answered. and, yet, there were even further plot elements introduced in the last 100 pages.

these were also left unaddressed. by my reckoning, the number of concepts brought up and never fully explained include a hundred year-old exorcism which is repeatedly mentioned (but never shown or actually brought up in anything other than an abstruse allusion to its importance), a cult of corpse-stealers, incest, varying degrees of possession, and just as to why the titular entity is at fort riley in the first place.

all of things introduced and unexplained, but we get a fully-realized description of astral projection in the last 50 pages? how the hell did this make it past an editor?

[Harold · Rating 1 out of 5]

On Fort Riley there is an evil that is causing people to kill. It is stacking up bodies and there is only one person that can stop it, 17 year-old Mike Triplett.

I think that short description sums up the book.

It is not a good book. I tried real hard to like it. I've been to Ft. Riley and the surrounding areas and the Mandelik does a good job in describing the area. That is about the best thing I can say.

The rest of the book is covered in plot holes and story lines that go nowhere. Mike has a friend Tim O'Conner who Mandelik spends a lot of the book on but is not even key to helping solve the overall problem of the entity. Tim's first girlfriend in the book turns out is pregnant and Tim convinces her to have an abortion. The only reason that this is even in the book would be to show that Mike has the ability to see the future but he really doesn't because what he sees is her dying during the procedure and she does not die.

That is just a couple of the issues with the book. There are other characters that are in the book that Mandelik spends time on that play no role in the plot, like Mikes dad, who starts out as a significant character but leaves for Germany midway. Mandelik also introduces significant characters way late in the book.

One more positive thing to say about the book. I heard a saying that if there is pipe on a coffee table on page one it better play a role in the end, meaning that an author should not waste time on things that do not move the story forward. I wondered what that was like. Mandelik finally revealed that to me.