Fractured
Erin Hayes
Genre: Horror, Adult
Blinded by a mysterious seizure when she was three years old, Bash Martin has managed to carve out a normal life for herself as an adult. Yet she still yearns for a deeper connection with her twin sister Lily, who has always been jealous of the attention their parents bestowed upon Bash due to her disability.
A dream vacation seems like the perfect chance to heal their relationship, but Bash soon realizes there is something terribly wrong with Lily and that her sister is hiding a dark secret. And when a supernatural fire engulfs their hotel and corpses come back to life, the sisters are plunged into a nightmarish world that threatens not only their lives, but their very souls.
The best way I can describe Fractured
by Erin Hayes is as a Horror Movie in print.
We follow several characters,
focusing in on a pair of twins and the man that both of them love. Of course,
something has been "haunting" the twins for a while and that
something is absolutely terrifying and dangerous.
The twins are set up well as
characters. They have two very distinct personalities and we can see how they
both got to that point. I found myself easily being able to compare them to
people I knew in real life.
The darkness of the book is set up
well as well. Things are littered throughout the beginning that become
important later. We are given enough things, that if we're paying close enough
attention, we can guess and figure things out.
The fact that this is pretty much a
Horror Movie in print is a double edged sword. On one hand everything is very
visual in the book. I can see everything playing out in my mind perfectly. I
can even imagine up the music playing in the background at certain moments and
the fear in the characters voices. The imagery is very, very scary.
On the other hand it would have come across much scarier as a movie due to the fact that in a book you can't just introduce characters for a second and expect them to make impacts on us. Fractured has three sets of characters. The three main ones, the secondary characters (their group of friends) and the background characters. I feel like if this last group had been set up far in advanced, things later would have had a greater impact on us readers.
On the other hand it would have come across much scarier as a movie due to the fact that in a book you can't just introduce characters for a second and expect them to make impacts on us. Fractured has three sets of characters. The three main ones, the secondary characters (their group of friends) and the background characters. I feel like if this last group had been set up far in advanced, things later would have had a greater impact on us readers.
That aside, however, I greatly
enjoyed the mythology and main characters that the book did present.
If you like Horror Movies, you will
like Fractured. It's not quite at Stephen King level, but the imagery is
top-notch and it is quite scary.
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About the Author
Sci-fi junkie, video game nerd, and wannabe manga artist, Erin Hayes writes a lot of things. Sometimes she writes books, like the fantasy mystery Death is but a Dream and the sci-fi middle grade book Jacob Smith is Incredibly Average.
You can reach her at tiptoegirl87@gmail.com and she’ll be happy to chat. Especially if you want to debate Star Wars.
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1 comments:
Great review, Sam! I love horror so I've been really intrigued by this one ever since I first saw it. Seems like one I need to read! :)
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