Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

But while Stephen King's novel took this time to really get to know the small town so that when the horror happens to the community, it's truly affecting, Buehlman's novel spends a large chunk of its time with Frank's mostly unnecessary dreams about his time in war and the couple's extremely healthy sex life. The novel begins in a very similar way to 'Salem's Lot, with no major action happening until about halfway through both books, instead focusing on the going-ons around the small town. Soon, after arriving, the town is terrorized by.dunh dunh dunh! Those Across The River! Frank has inherited a house and land that stretches back generations and he travels there to write what he hopes to be a bestseller about the violent history of his great grandfather's slave plantation that lies in the mysterious woods across the river.

It follows a couple, Frank and Eudora, moving to a small town in the Depression-era South. This book had such great potential and loads of missed opportunities. I highly recommend the audio of this novel! As for right now? I'm on to my next Christopher Buehlman book! I will be keeping an eye out for more of his work in the future. The narrator, Mark Bramhall, was absolutely phenomenal-I loved his Southern accents and voicing-they brought the story alive for me. There's nothing new or extraordinary here, but a well told and atmospheric story is always welcome on my Kindle, (and now on my phone!), and I enjoyed this immensely. What follows is a well told, atmospheric and creepy story that went in a totally different direction than what I expected. In the letter he received about the inheritance he was warned not to actually live in the house, but of course, he does so anyway-along with his fiance Eudora. Set mostly in GA in the early 1930's, a damaged WWI veteran moves down from Chicago to a house he has recently inherited. I downloaded Those Across the River knowing nothing about it, and I think that was the best way to go in to this story. I saw this book available and remembered that my friend Tressa had just recommended me a book by this author a few days previous. I recently got a new phone that came with some fancy earbuds, so I decided to head over to Overdrive and check out an audio from my library, so I could try them out. In fact, I downloaded another of his books just now. Those Across the River is my first Buehlman, but will not be my last.

Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman