Wednesday 13 February 2013

The Faceless by Simon Bestwick




Interesting this one, and I’m not quite sure how much I liked it even 24 hours after finishing it!!!

The story is essentially of an evil family who brought mutilated war hero’s back to a local sanitarium after the first world war but used their suffering for their occult purposes. After all this had dies out a pedo ring with occult tendencies rediscovered what was going on and managed to harness the powers of the previous horrors for their own uses. The story centers on one individual who is a tv psychic. His show is made up but he does have the sight and is eventually tricked back to the home town as the final part of the jigsaw to allow all of the “spindly men” (the dead and deformed soldiers who usually have to wear masks as they suffered facial damage) back onto this plane. In the end all hell breaks loose and the goodies fail to stop the oncoming onslaught (this makes a refreshing change!) and everybody bails out of the country as it is consumed with evil only for the one remaining heroin to take flight to Europe with her unborn child. However, she may hold the ability to reverse things!! Set up for a sequel?

Good, but at times frustrating, especially towards the end. However, after a little while and the dust settles I’m now thinking that was actually better than I thought whilst reading it.

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