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A review by kerasalwaysreading
Sorrow's Point by Danielle DeVor
5.0
Wow! Just wow. For months I wanted to get my hands on this book, but for some reason, it didn't happen. I would put off buying it or I was engrossed in reading other things... When I saw it on sale for $0.99 I just couldn't pass it up. So, two nights ago I started to read.
Now I am a sissy when it comes to scary movies, but not books. I have read books where leper baby's skin has sloughed of her little face, about a house haunted by the energy of a bunch of sex-crazed, glutenous deviants and about a town surrounded by darkness so thick and consuming that it was like a living thing, but nothing has really stuck with me like this damn book! Books don't usually come back to get me when I am laying in bed with the lights out. But then again, I saw The Exorcist when I was 13 and it still remains the most terrifying thing I have ever see. So maybe that is just the thing that really freaks me out.
This is the story of an ex-priest who gets a phone call out of the blue from a friend that he hasn't seen in ten years, asking for help. He believes his six-year old daughter is possessed. So the ex-priest goes with the man to his house and joins the dynamic of this husband and wife who are being torn up inside over the ordeal of having a "possessed" daughter. They have taken her to doctors and specialists but her father is sure that this is NOT his little girl.
Upon meeting Lucy, I knew I was really in for it. What it does to the little girl and her body. The things that it makes her do and say just seem so unnatural to me and it scared the crap out of me. I am so serious about this kind of stuff that I even refused to read the name of the demon in the little girl. That is how scared I was from this book.
Aside from the demon-stuff it was slow at points, like painfully slow. But in the end, that kind of just added to the tension and fear. I will say that the same things were said over and over and the same points were made again and again. The repetitiveness was slightly grating. They ate a lot, and spent an amazing amount of time talking about food... what to eat, preparing food, cooking, eating, cooking, eating... Ugh!!
In conclusion, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to spend the next few nights having their husband come with them into any dark room of the house, wait for you by the bathroom door or let you crawl under the blankets before he turns the light out before bed... ;)
Now I am a sissy when it comes to scary movies, but not books. I have read books where leper baby's skin has sloughed of her little face, about a house haunted by the energy of a bunch of sex-crazed, glutenous deviants and about a town surrounded by darkness so thick and consuming that it was like a living thing, but nothing has really stuck with me like this damn book! Books don't usually come back to get me when I am laying in bed with the lights out. But then again, I saw The Exorcist when I was 13 and it still remains the most terrifying thing I have ever see. So maybe that is just the thing that really freaks me out.
This is the story of an ex-priest who gets a phone call out of the blue from a friend that he hasn't seen in ten years, asking for help. He believes his six-year old daughter is possessed. So the ex-priest goes with the man to his house and joins the dynamic of this husband and wife who are being torn up inside over the ordeal of having a "possessed" daughter. They have taken her to doctors and specialists but her father is sure that this is NOT his little girl.
Upon meeting Lucy, I knew I was really in for it. What it does to the little girl and her body. The things that it makes her do and say just seem so unnatural to me and it scared the crap out of me. I am so serious about this kind of stuff that I even refused to read the name of the demon in the little girl. That is how scared I was from this book.
Aside from the demon-stuff it was slow at points, like painfully slow. But in the end, that kind of just added to the tension and fear. I will say that the same things were said over and over and the same points were made again and again. The repetitiveness was slightly grating. They ate a lot, and spent an amazing amount of time talking about food... what to eat, preparing food, cooking, eating, cooking, eating... Ugh!!
In conclusion, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to spend the next few nights having their husband come with them into any dark room of the house, wait for you by the bathroom door or let you crawl under the blankets before he turns the light out before bed... ;)