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Liked It “a very unsettling yet interesting read. set in a small town in germany, the story focuses on 4 young children as they come of age but this is not your typical story - things, very violent and disturbing things, happen from, to and around these children and the people in their lives and you...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “If there were a zero star option, this book earns it, and worse. It gave me nightmares, twice, and not because it was so spooky and convincingly well written. Described as a novel of "supernatural horror," it is little more than a collection of unrelated chapters, in each of which something...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“If there were a zero star option, this book earns it, and worse. It gave me nightmares, twice, and not because it was so spooky and convincingly well written. Described as a novel of "supernatural horror," it is little more than a collection of unrelated chapters, in each of which something hateful happens – murder, rape, incest, death, beatings, etc. It isn’t “horror,” a la Stephen King where this is an at least an actual story, so much as it is just horrible. It takes a troubled soul to write vignettes like this without them being related in any kind of overarching narrative – just violence and death for the sake of it – and I didn’t find a thing to enjoy about it. Save yourself the bad dreams and skip this one. ”
Jenny B wrote this review Saturday, March 16, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book was supposed to be a mix between the Twilight Zone and Children of the Corn. I just found it odd. The book follows 4 children as they grow up in an old village in Germany. Strange things happen all around the children with some of them even killing as kids. The book is broken up into each individual child's story, with it rotating between them through the years. This makes it a bit hard to follow and a little confusing. There were a few times where the stories came full circle, but over all it was just weird. ”
~* Kim *~ wrote this review Sunday, March 10, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“a very unsettling yet interesting read. set in a small town in germany, the story focuses on 4 young children as they come of age but this is not your typical story - things, very violent and disturbing things, happen from, to and around these children and the people in their lives and you actually end up feeling very little for some of these characters which is something different from most books. i was left with many questions which i kind of enjoyed pondering - incest? internment camp? dream? where are the authorities? my only problem - too many characters and with the german names, i kind of got lost trying to remember who was related and who did what to whom.”
Randy S wrote this review Thursday, February 28, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The book has all of the qualities of a nightmare. This is a small German town in which nothing is as it seems. Engrossing, and definitely worth a read.”
Jason B wrote this review Sunday, November 4, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A very strange book.”
Laurie W wrote this review Monday, October 15, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I was very excited to want to pick up this book and read it. I was in the mood for a good horror story. Unfortunately for me this book missed the mark. It moved very slowly and the characters were uninteresting to me. I thought the back story about each character in regards to where they came from would help with the story. It would shed light as to what prompted them to do what they did but all it showed me was the children grew up in sad families and then started getting in trouble and being trouble makers. I got about almost half way and then I skimmed the rest of the book. Just so I could find out what happened in the end.
Cheryl wrote this review Tuesday, October 2, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This book was more about the drawing out of the characters then it was about the scare factor. This is what I wanted. The scare might have been there but it was subtle. However I do have to give it up to the graphic art department for the creepy book cover. If you hold the book at just the right angle you can see the imprinted embossed words that over lay the cover and they say “If You Tell On Me You’re Dead”. Now that is creepy.
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LITERAL ADDICTION wrote this review Sunday, September 16, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Stefan Kiesbye takes the reader on a dark and twisted journey in Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Dead.
The book is written in differing points of view from each of the main characters. It's almost like a connected collection of short stories in that way, and each overlap slightly in regards to timeframe.
Written with beautiful prose rife with simile and metaphor, the story covers the disturbing reminiscence of 5 children growing up in rural Germany and the horror that is the human psyche.
It was an unsettling and beautifully written nostalgic horror show full of emotion.
LITERAL ADDICTION gives Your House is on Fire, Your Children all Dead 3 1/2 Skulls. It was an enjoyable and disturbing read, but I'm not sure I'd read it a 2nd time.
An aside note: The press didn't really match up to the real deal. It was advertised as The Twilight Zone meets The Children of the Corn, meets the X-Files. Twilight Zone, maybe. The others... not so much, in my opinion anyway. One thing I will say though, the cover design is absolutely GENIUS! Loved it! ”
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