No book is off-limits since horror is subjective.

I’d suggest no one else waste their time on it.Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. The story was really dull and could have cared less for anyone that was introduced. That said, there were all these positive reviews and I can’t find a reason for any of them. I’ve written one and it isn’t close to being a masterpiece of any kind and I know what it’s like for people to ridicule your story. I almost never have a negative review to give on a book. Nothing you haven’t read before and a ton of character development on side characters that really had no business having the extra time involved in the story. But it’s mostly a complete snooze fest with little to no excitement.

The performance was great and the performer did the best he could with the story that was given. really? And, not only the annoyance of that - most of the times the quotes basically tells you what’s about yo happen in that chapter. first of all, every chapter begins with a quote from another book. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988.

His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Born in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages. James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries-old. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath the ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception.

Shrine by James Herbert