Rafael Alencar Alencar itibaren Truskavets'ka city council, Lviv Oblast, Ukraina
Cute, clean romantic read.
I loved it, how Luce longed for Daniel every single day she was at Shoreline and how Daniel kept showing up to Luce even though he wasn't supposed to. It was really sweet of Daniel to still alot time for him to visit Luce. Although the end was hanging to the point that I had to but Passion immediately, I still loved the book :)
The Laymon books I've read up to now have generally been old school horror - in your face with lashings of gore, sex and violence. This is quite a departure, although those ingredients aren't completely absent. Laymon's adolescent (but harmless) obsession with the female breast continues. Night in the Lonesome October is an unexpectedly rambling tale about Ed, a college guy who has just been dumped by the love of his life. His solution to the problem of painful memories is to wander around the town in the middle of the night. During these excursions, he has a number of bizarre encounters. Ed has aspirations to be a writer and certainly has an incredible imagination, sometimes to the point of almost losing his grip on reality. His weird state of mind, coupled with bouts of overwhelming stupidity, is emphasised by the use of first person POV. Having said that, the reality he lives in is a strange one indeed. Ed makes some very odd decisions and Laymon seems to have let him run away with the plot at times. Of course, with an unbridled writer such as Laymon this could easily be deliberate. In keeping with the rambling nature of the book, there are a number of meandering conversations that don't seem to go anywhere. There is plenty of narrative in the book too, but many of the conversations come across as fairly pointless. Being positive, I guess you could say that we are getting an insight into the characters. This dialogue didn't bother me, in fact it was in keeping with the meandering nature of the book. Just when you start wondering where on earth the story can be going, events start to happen that suggest a conclusion is in sight. The final scenes are typical Laymon, before he concludes with a brief tie-up. To sum it up, this book has a random plot, an annoying protagonist and unlike most Laymon books certainly isn't horror. Despite all this, I couldn't help but enjoy it.
In my top three favorites
Fun reading and lots of very interesting stories which have been excellently researched and written in a comical way that makes a long read much more enjoyable. I struggled a bit during the 3rd quarter of this book for some reason and it took me a long time to get back into it but I'm glad I finished it.