Let me say this before we go any further. Spiders. I hate spiders. However, as long as they remain on the page I should be OK.
It's doesn't take long before John Everson has my skin crawling...
"at that moment, the spiders began to jump. They landed in her hair and on her back and shoulders. They skittered down her waist and leapt up from the ground to cover her ankles and shins. They were everywhere. Like a swarm of ants over a spot of grease on a summer sidewalk. They fell from the darkness onto her mouth and crawled around her neck to tickle the lobes of her ears. They covered her body like a deep violet skin, and they didn’t care when she maniacally batted and slapped and crushed dozens of them with her alarm. There were hundreds more to take their place."
Billy McAllister was the only survivor of an incident at Sheila Key which took the lives of three of his friends, unfortunately, when he returned home to Passanattee, Florida he brought some unwanted guests with him.
Rachel Riordan and her young son, Eric are new to Passanattee. Recently divorced from her abusive husband, Anders, they are hoping to start a new life. Enter state forestry ranger, Terry Brackson, and you have the makings of an interesting side story.
Cringe-worthy images of horror with terrific characters, both likable and unlikable. Violet Eyes is guaranteed to make your skin crawl. Everson' ability to mix the real with the supernatural is nothing shy of a gift.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this review, I already had a fear of spiders, Thanks to this book, I'm now afraid of flies, as well.
Totally recommended.
Published by Dark Arts Books, Violet Eyes is available in paperback, for the Kindle, and Audible formats. If you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited you can read it at no additional charge. Also, if you are an Amazon Prime member you can read it for FREE using the Kindle Owners Lending Library.
From the author's bio - John Everson is a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeno and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema. He is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and eight other novels, including the erotic horror tour de force and Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere and the seductive backwoods tale of The Family Tree. Over the past 25 years, his short fiction has appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies and received a number of critical accolades, including frequent Honorable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror anthology series.
John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations, and a large stuffed Eeyore.
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