
Cunning Folk
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Narrated by:
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Peter Walters
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By:
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Adam Nevill
A compelling folk-horror story of deadly rivalry and the oldest magic from the author of The Ritual, The Reddening, No One Gets Out Alive and the four times winner of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.
No home is heaven with hell next door.
Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.
Within days of crossing the threshold, when hostilities break out with the elderly couple next door, Tom's dreams of future contentment are threatened by an escalating tit-for-tat campaign of petty damage and disruption.
Increasingly isolated and tormented, Tom risks losing his home, everyone dear to him, and his mind. Because, surely, only the mad would suspect that the oddballs across the hedgerow command unearthly powers. A malicious magic even older than the eerie wood and the strange barrow therein. A hallowed realm from where, he suspects, his neighbours draw a hideous power.
“Adam Nevill excels at making nightmares real.” (Guardian)
“Nevill has crafted some of the tensest scariest horror this reviewer has read in years.” (SFX)
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Great book.
loved it.
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I wish I would have actually read this one
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derisive amd unspectacular
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Great story but
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Story was gripping, narration was grating
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Adam Nevill Strikes Again
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I think this one worked for me because it was a lot shorter and stuck to one part.
As usual, Neville has a way for making me connect to his characters and hate anyone who does them wrong. I didn’t really like Tom at first and he made some stupid choices, but he really came around when he needed to and went to huge lengths to fight for his family.
As for his family…I loved Gracie, the four-year-old who always believed in her Daddy, but Fiona, his wife, really got on my nerves. It wasn’t that she was a bad person, but certain circumstances put her character in the worst light and that was never redeemed enough for me.
As for the elderly neighbors, they made excellent villains and were pretty terrifying in their indifference to some of the most horrific situations. That said, Nevill gave them a humanity at times that made me actually wonder if they were all bad.
I loved the plot in this, the backstories, and all the details about what was really going on. My absolute favorite scene was when Tom meets Blackwood, who decides to help him defeat his neighbors…for a price, of course.
My only real criticism is that the detail got a little too much at times and distracted from the meat of the story. That said, the last 10 chapters absolutely killed it and blew me away, leaving me guessing to the final page.
Fantastic and Terrifying
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Good Story, Reader was good as well.
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(And I'm not sure if I just got a wonky copy, but the recording isn't very crisp.)
Frustrating ...
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Slow, but Descriptive
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