ARA Review by Chaotic_Reading of Raven's Peak

[Chaotic_Reading]

[Following is an OnlineBookClub.org ARA Review of the book, Raven's Peak.]

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3 out of 5 stars

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The following is a review for Raven's Peak by Lincoln Cole.

When the quiet town of Raven’s Peak begins to have people go crazy, it’s up to Abigail and Haatim to figure out what is going on. Together, they travel to the small town to do some investigating of their own, and confront the demon that appeared.

This book was okay. I found it difficult to read, not in the written word sense, but in the sense that I just couldn’t get into it. It felt more like a first draft to me, than a finished book. It was very dialogue heavy, again, not bad, just a lot of dialogue; pages of dialogue with little to no prose. It does have some really awesome supernatural elements that carry onwards throughout the entire story.

This book does have a solid plot, which has a lot of potential, but there is just too much dialogue and not enough description overall. I really did enjoy the characters, their flaws, and their strengths. Abigail wants to do what is right, even when she is told to do otherwise, and I admire her character for that. Haatim is the same way. Well, once he got over the shock that what was happening to him was real, and not just a result of the concussion. Despite their different upbringings, the two make a surprisingly good team, even better once Abigail accepts the help that Haatim is offering to her.

Together, the two battle it out against Belphegor, the demon who possessed a twelve-year-old boy that was visiting in the town of Raven’s Peak. The scene where the college kids were murdered was probably the best written part of the book. The fear and terror in the young woman’s person as she realizes that she is about to die, and then for Cole to then continue the scene through her gruesome death, was well depicted, if not gory, and possibly the best prose of the book.

Personally, I wouldn’t recommend this book, nor do I have any interest in reading the rest of the series, but that isn’t to say, people wouldn’t enjoy it. Like I said, it has a lot of potential, and the story is solid. The book just didn’t pull me in.

For such a small (word count wise) book, this took me an incredibly long time to read. It was slow to start, and hard to get into. That, in part, is why I have given it 3 out of 5 stars.

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