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The Dead Game
by Susanne Leist
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Publication Date: August 29, 2013
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc
ISBN: 1478704489
Genre: Adult Paranormal Mystery
Number of Pages: 325
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Linda moves to a small town to live a quieter and simpler life. She
opens a bookstore and makes new friends. Life is simple–that is until
the dead body washes up on shore. Linda is horrified to find out that
dead bodies and disappearing tourists are common for this town. As soon
as the sun sets, she and her friends are stalked by dark shadows. But
this is only the beginning.
Linda and her group receive an unsigned invitation to a party at the
deserted house on the hill. They are afraid of the unfriendly hill
residents, who only venture out of their homes at night. They attend the
party. They are pursued through revolving rooms and dangerous traps,
barely escaping with their lives. Two of their own remain trapped in the
house. Or so they think.
The Dead Game has begun.
My Review:
The Dead Game by Susanne Leist
Doesn’t the name Oasis sound like an idyllic place to live? The
perfect calm and relaxing place to settle down, Oasis has small town
charm, small town neighbors, and even a mysterious and foreboding house
about which horror stories are told, oh and bodies are being found,
drained of blood. Who or what would drain the blood of its victims? What
is the dark secret surrounding the town and its inhabitants? A newcomer
to Oasis, Linda can’t help but get involved, especially after a
harrowing experience at the End House. Is there a serial murderer going
around acting out a vampire fantasy? Is it possible vampires are real?
Are there good vamps and bad vamps? From the day Linda entered Oasis,
her life was set on a path she could never have imagined, and her
boyfriend just may be part of the nightmare she is now living.
The Dead Game by debut author Susanne Leist makes a bold
statement by crossing the genre lines, serving up one scoop mystery, one
scoop romance and topping it off with a dollop of dark paranormal
fantasy. Have you ever been somewhere, listening to someone drone on,
while carrying on your own mental conversation, full of snark and
attitude? There is lots of that going, lightening those dark moments
with a little quirky humor. The main character, Linda is inquisitive to
the point of putting herself in danger, as well as her friends who are
all on board for playing paranormal super sleuths. They form a rag-tag
band of amateur P.I.s playing cat and mouse with some serious evil that
has been hiding out in town, waiting to make their play for power and
control.
The attention to detail is very strong, from the settings to the
characters themselves, mental images are easy to conjure, as well as the
actions each character is making. While it doesn’t slow the story down,
(which by the way is twisting and convoluted right up to that last
page), it does require paying attention, as does the dialogue, which at
times seemed too calm and intelligent when I would have been a babbling
fool!
