Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #665339 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 323 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780843961904
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Veteran horrormeister Braunbeck breaks literary rules by the handful in his latest dark fantasy yarn, which makes reference to 2007's Mr. Hands and 2008's Coffin County without exactly being a sequel. When a high school student goes on an inexplicable shooting spree, it stirs a host of memories for unassuming suburban English teacher Geoff Conover. Returning to Cedar Hill, Ohio, the town he left as an infant after surviving another mass killing, Geoff comes to realize that his personal mysteries are inextricably bound to his birthplace. Time frames and perspectives shift multiple, tortuous times, and the blend of disorienting narrative fragmentation and the blameless blank-slate protagonist makes the tale curiously flat. The lack of a strong emotional hook will put off new readers, but aficionados of the Cedar Hill mythos will enjoy the familiar echoes and enticing new details. (Aug.)
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Customer Reviews

Braunbeck continues Cedar Hill world.
Gary Braunbeck is one of the best writers in the genre...and out of the genre actually.
FAR DARK FIELDS moves the C edar Hill universe closer to an ending.
A very emotionally draining novel, this one concerns a mass murder and a survivor looking back to try and assuage his guilt for living through it.
Another winner from Braunbeck.

Another winner from Braunbeck
Gary Braunbeck is easily one of those authors that I must read the second I get one of his books. His prose is literate without being pretentious or inaccessible, and you feel like you know his characters and live in Cedar Hill yourself.

Yes, there are some stories here that have appeared elsewhere, but this is not pure laziness on Braunbeck's part. Rather, it is more like a spider web. You see the individual strands and the outline of the web in his previous works. With Far Dark Fields, it becomes clear that you can see more strands connected to the ones already seen, that those strands are strengthening the overall web.

Far Dark Fields has strengthened the story of Cedar Hill and has broadened its scope. It feels like every word written about Cedar Hill has a purpose and that purpose is finally starting to show itself.

Highly recommended, along with his other works.

Twisted
Very well written horror romp. I read this with out having read the previous Cedar Hill novels and while I don't recommend reading it without reading the earlier novels I was still able to follow along and enjoy the story. Also note that this book ends with a To be Continued... even if it doesn't say that it does on the cover.