Mount Misery: A Novel

By: Angelo Peluso

Narrated by: Angela Starling

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's Summary

There are new residents in the Long Island Sound… and they have a taste for flesh. The first time the creatures tasted human blood, their savagery went undetected. Thus begins Mount Misery, a terrific horror tale by writer Angelo Peluso. Located on the Long Island Sound, random attacks by unknown creatures are terrorizing local residents. The question: Who is going to do something about it? Marine biologist Katie DiNardo and ichthyologist Nick Tanner have seen the damage caused by their mystery creatures, but are at a complete loss as to the attacking species. All they know is that they need to get to the bottom of this - and fast. While they continue to do their research, people are dropping like flies, and if they don’t figure out what’s going on, there’s no saying what this destructive species will do next.

In a similar style to Jaws, Mount Misery is a spectacular suspense novel that grips you from the first page and doesn’t let its teeth out! Fans of horror will rejoice with Mount Misery, and listeners will enjoy the throwback style that made this genre what it is today.

©2014 Angelo Peluso (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Author thinks audience are idiots

Everything is over-explained. I can get past middling to poor writing for a good monster critter story (see Steve Alten), but this seemed like it had never seen an editor's pen.

Also, if you have a lousy reason for a monster existing, just leave the reason out. It's not 1954 any more.

Disappointing

Why in the world did the main character hang onto her boyfriend. He was a jerk and my main disappointment was that he didn’t get eaten. Annoying characters throughout.

It's a B horror movie, in book form!

Cheesey and campy, if you love a good B horror movie on Friday night give this a try. Not the best novel ever written but fun and entertaining for sure.

A word of warning to all buyers

This book meanders terribly and flounders in tepid waters. The characters are the worst sort of Bobby-Sue and Mary-Sue cardboard cut outs and (spoilers) if the characters all stayed in bed then the plot of the book would have played out exactly as if they had not been in it at all.

I feel bad giving this such a bad review as this appears to be the authors' first foray into fiction but hopefully they stick to writing fishing guides.

Some of the scenes sounded as if they should have been in some sort of soft-core erotica and this is not helped by the fact that the narrator has voiced several other bodice-ripper novels, so she is obviously comfortable reading that sort of fiction.

I'm very glad I can return this book and get my credit back because it's a painful listen and I only listened to the whole thing so I could write this review.

Either avoid at all costs or play a drinking game where you take a shot every time a character says the word Fish. Believe me you'll pass out drunk in about ten minutes.