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A review by diannel_04
December by Phil Rickman
5.0
On the night John Lennon is murdered a group of rock musicians, each with a different psychic power, are recording an album at a ruined Welsh abbey. Something goes terribly wrong and they separate, not having any contact with each other for 14 years. They believe they have destroyed the taps from that session of what is dubbed The Black Album.
Fourteen years after that night the tapes are found and restored. This makes the record company push to have the album completed.
The bad return to the Abbey but this time they know that it was never a holy place but a place of pure, unadulterated evil. They also know that on Dec. 8, every 7 years, someone dies at the Abbey and has ever since 1175.
This was an amazing book. It can't be called horror, it isn't mystery and it isn't fantasy. I don't know what category it falls into but I loved it and can't wait to read more. If Phil Rickman's next book is as good I will have found a new author to add to my favourites list.
Fourteen years after that night the tapes are found and restored. This makes the record company push to have the album completed.
The bad return to the Abbey but this time they know that it was never a holy place but a place of pure, unadulterated evil. They also know that on Dec. 8, every 7 years, someone dies at the Abbey and has ever since 1175.
This was an amazing book. It can't be called horror, it isn't mystery and it isn't fantasy. I don't know what category it falls into but I loved it and can't wait to read more. If Phil Rickman's next book is as good I will have found a new author to add to my favourites list.