Author: Wesley CritchfieldPublisher: /
Genre: Horror / Romance / Comedy
Released: November 23rd, 2020
Description:
While traveling back home from a job interview in California, Mark and Ally Thurston suffer a car accident in Middle of Nowhere Kansas. After walking for miles to the nearest convenience store, they are greeted by Hap, the store owner, who invites them to stay the night at his home. When the two announce their plans to stay in the nearby Hotel and restaurant "The Olde Towen Buffet" Hap does his best to dissuade them, but when they insist he leaves them with a strange warning: "Don't Eat the Calamari."When the warning goes unheeded, the two of them are plunged headlong into a cosmic nightmare, of Giants, Frog-Men, Time Travel, and Interdimensional Madness, all of which concludes in a battle against an ancient evil. Together they must fight to preserve their lives, their sanity, and perhaps even their world
Ray says:
Huey Lewis and his happy gang told me once, that the power of love is a curious thing. It makes one man weep and the other one sing. Apparently, it makes one man fight the powers of evil to rescue his girlfriend, too!
Mark and Ally have a lot in common with Denisé and me. They are a happy couple, take the whole “through the good and bad times” thing serious and Mark and I both tend to crack one or two jokes at the expense of our shorter partners. Their love is strong and pure enough to make this story happen and I had a wonderful time with them. All in all, the important characters are wonderfully fleshed out and their reasons to fight an unfathomable evil are more than valid.
This book offers a lot on the 500+ pages: risky action sequences straight out of a Rambo movie, tons of pop culture references (and I probably didn’t catch all of them, to be honest), the advertised Lovecraftian flair of interdimensional horrors which bend time, space and eating habits, an evil cult with a terrifying dwarf for a leader, hilarious dialogues between a stressed out protagonist and a bunch of chaotic neutral frog-men and a love story which is better than anything Stephanie Meyer ever had to offer.
All of this is presented in a fluent and detailed style of writing, which certainly got better during the story. One of my many highlights was the unusual end, which is definitely not your run of the mill ending. The only negative aspect of this highly entertaining story were a handful of spelling mistakes the keen reader will undoubtedly notice, but won’t hinder the reader to continue and understand the story, as well as the (as I dub it) the author’s commentary, which give the already voluminous book a touch of not being polished.
Mark and Ally have a lot in common with Denisé and me. They are a happy couple, take the whole “through the good and bad times” thing serious and Mark and I both tend to crack one or two jokes at the expense of our shorter partners. Their love is strong and pure enough to make this story happen and I had a wonderful time with them. All in all, the important characters are wonderfully fleshed out and their reasons to fight an unfathomable evil are more than valid.
This book offers a lot on the 500+ pages: risky action sequences straight out of a Rambo movie, tons of pop culture references (and I probably didn’t catch all of them, to be honest), the advertised Lovecraftian flair of interdimensional horrors which bend time, space and eating habits, an evil cult with a terrifying dwarf for a leader, hilarious dialogues between a stressed out protagonist and a bunch of chaotic neutral frog-men and a love story which is better than anything Stephanie Meyer ever had to offer.
All of this is presented in a fluent and detailed style of writing, which certainly got better during the story. One of my many highlights was the unusual end, which is definitely not your run of the mill ending. The only negative aspect of this highly entertaining story were a handful of spelling mistakes the keen reader will undoubtedly notice, but won’t hinder the reader to continue and understand the story, as well as the (as I dub it) the author’s commentary, which give the already voluminous book a touch of not being polished.
Conclusion:
All in all, this debut held up to the author’s promises and, seeing as the author did almost everything on his own, quite an enormous feat. I had more than my fair share of fun with this and thoroughly enjoyed the story from start to finish. Despite the spelling mistakes and other small blemishes I mentioned, this is truly a fantastic book which I would happily recommend to other readers who are looking for an unusual, fun filled and amusing horror story.
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