Last Days

De: Brian Evenson

Narrado por: Chris Patton

Still reeling from a brutal dismemberment, detective Kline is forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside a religious cult that takes literally the New Testament idea that you should cut off your hand if it offends you. Armed only with his gun, his wits, and a gift for self-preservation, Kline must navigate a gauntlet of lies, threats, and misinformation. All too soon he discovers that the stakes are higher than he thought and that his survival depends on an act of sheer will.

Brian Evenson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award and the International Horror Guild Award. He is the recipient of both an O. Henry Award and an NEA award. Evenson’s writing has been described as dark, violent, philosophical, critical, and lyrical.

©2010 Brian Evenson (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“A writer of disconcerting power.” ( The London Times)

“Evenson’s new masterpiece . . . [an] astonishing work.” (Paul Di Filippo)

“Wickedly brilliant. A superb thriller that’s a darker shade of noir. Brian’s writing is scalpel sharp.” (Simon Clark)

It was ok

I keep hearing so much about this book and how deeply disturbing and horrifying very in a white life-changing. But I was able to listen to the entire thing without skipping a beat, wondering all the time when I would actually get some backstory to what’s actually happening, but that never happened. Oh no, it was an OK. Book with a decently paced storyline, but it was just very hard to see any side characters motivations for anything that they were doing. All in all this book did not disturb me, and I was able to just breeze right through it. Meh.

Really on the fence

The story was easy enough to follow, but there were some very cringe moments

A Striking Piece of Horror

Brian Evenson isn’t as talked about as a number of horror authors, but he knows his stuff (I believe he even directs the creative writing program at Brown). His prose is pared down, free of a lot of the (frequently unnecessary) details one might expect; but the style doesn’t feel like the result of a lack of skill or planning. Instead we end up with a really interesting novel that plays with structure in some intriguing ways — many encounters and scenes early on are mirrored and echoed in later sections.

There is a lot of gore, but it’s presented in such a manner of fact way that it doesn’t feel particularly gore-y.
Strongly recommended.

A different and exciting thriller

This book was fresh and entertaining. BK Evanson is a great thriller writer with some horror aspects thrown in. I loved this book, as well as Dead Space Martyr, which isnt offered on Audible unfortunately. The only reason not to listen to this is if you don't like body horror. There were some parts that even bugged me, but overall I loved this audiobook. Great performance as well.

Overall a pretty solid quick read

Very fun. Tongue and cheek (no pun intended) got a little repetitive at times