Blood Games

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They meet up for one week every year: Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene — five former co-eds in search of thrills and adventure. Just like they enjoyed together at college. This time it's Helen's choice. Helen, the fat girl with a taste for horror, the brainy one with a fear of being caught alone in the shower by an unknown assailant with a sharp knife and a thirst for blood…For this year's reunion, Helen has picked The Totem Pole Lodge, a deserted hotel in the backwoods with a sinister past. She's looking forward to the moment when she'll tell the others the gory details. But that's before night falls and the girls find the Lodge is not as deserted as they thought. And before Helen goes into the shower. Alone.
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From Publishers WeeklyIn the early 1990s, as the horror market bottomed in the U.S., several established American authors, including Laymon (To Wake the Dead, etc.), were unable to find domestic publishers for their work. Laymon continued to hit bestseller lists overseas during this period, though, and this is one of the novels he wrote during that time. Like so much of his mid-career work, it's a middling effort, and it's also a mixed bag-nearly literally, as it offers a present-day scenario interspersed with flashbacks that are, in effect, standalone short stories. In the present, five young alumni of Belmore University are on their annual get-together; this year, the choice of what to do has fallen to Helen, a horror buff, who arranges for the group to camp out at a deserted backwoods lodge where guests were slaughtered by locals several years back. In time, the group encounter various townsfolk, including a witch, whom they must fight for their lives, resulting in a characteristic Laymon bloodbath. The action here is fast but predictable. Of greater interest are the flashbacks, showing first how the gang got together, then detailing their various exploits-taking revenge on some frat guys by setting fire to their house, on a cruel dean by trashing her office, on a nasty homeowner on Halloween by destroying his living room; seducing a young male surfer during a foggy nighttime trip along the California coast, etc. It's in these scenes that Laymon displays some, but not much, of the surreal nightmarish sensibility that hallmarked his great later work (The Traveling Vampire Show, etc.). Overall, then, this is brisk but routine entertainment from the controversial author, who died in 2001.
Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Ричард Лаймон Карл
- Language
- Ukrainian
Reviews
Захоплююча подорож у світ жахів і дружби!
"Ігри на крові" - це не просто книга, а справжня емоційна подорож, яка переносить читача у світ, де страх і дружба переплітаються в неймовірний спосіб. Автор майстерно створює атмосферу напруги, де кожен звук і тінь можуть стати загрозою. Хелен, як головна героїня, вражає своєю сміливістю та любов'ю до жахів, що робить її ідеальним провідником у цю криваву пригоду. Ретроспективи про минулі подвиги дівчат додають глибини персонажам та їхнім відносинам, роблячи їх більш реальними та близькими. Книга змушує задуматися про те, що справжні страхи можуть ховатися не лише в темряві, а й у минулому. Я б рекомендував цю книгу всім, хто любить жахи та пригоди, адже вона поєднує в собі все найкраще з цих жанрів!