The Winter People eBook Bret Tallent
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The Winter People talk in the wind and torment you in your dreams. They call an enormous blizzard to their aid and fall upon the tiny mountain town of Copper Creek. The residents and visitors of this quaint village have more to fear than the raging blizzard that has cut off their town from the rest of the world. They have more to fear than the nightmares they can't quite remember in the morning. The Winter People have come to feed.
This is a fast paced heart pounding fear-fest. It follows the lives of a small group trying to survive the greatest horror they have ever known. And an enemy like no other on earth.
The Winter People eBook Bret Tallent
The author's note at the end of the book states that the basic story is true and Author Tallent asked the question "What If?". What if, indeed! This was a magnificent tale that held me in its thrall from the first page to the last. I went practically insane when my kindle needed to be charged one evening before I was prepared to stop reading for the night...Aaauuugggh! When I picked it up again, I could not and did not put it down.This is as spellbinding as any Dean Koontz novel or Clive Cussler novel and to be honest, on some levels twice as elegant. The thought that the "Winter People" could actually exist or could have at one time makes me incredibly pleased that I live in a warm spot on the planet. I could tell you more about it, tell you what happens...but why should I take the pleasure of of the read for you? You won't believe it. If you like horror, fantasy, sci-fi, Indian Lore - this book will NOT let you down. Uhmmm, try not to read it right before you go to bed, especially after chapter 2. Whooo what a ride!
Bret Tallent has a new fan in me. I am of a mind that anything that can be imagined has a basis in reality...perhaps not in this time, but in the past.
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The Winter People eBook Bret Tallent Reviews
This story had me from the very beginning. Having lived through blizzard type conditions in Montana, I could almost feel the cold and hear the screaming winds. I never gave thought to such weather until I read this story, now I'm not so sure I will love winter time so much. Remember when you read Jaws and you were afraid to go into the water for the rest of the summer? This story will have you thinking second thoughts the next time you go outside to play in the snow.
This is a story about what might have happened as a result of an actual recorded event which occurred a couple of centuries in the past. It begins with a sister and brother who have always been very close and friends/family getting together for a winter vacation. They travel to an area that has more forest than people. The other characters are from a nearby Ranger station and a town about a two hour drive from there. The four guys in their early twenties begin to have problems on the drive and it gets even more interesting as the story progresses. To avoid spoilers, that's enough about the plot. I really enjoyed the book. The suspense was well-done and arrived at a satisfactory conclusion. This book was not filled with multitudes of typos and sloppy grammar. It could use a bit of editing as it gets a little wordy in places, but it doesn't interfere with the reading. If sci-fi, mystery and horror wrapped in a tight package is your genre, this is a book for you.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book about demonic cannibalistic creatures that can create an intense blizzard and feast at their leisure under cover of the storm. I was also intrigued by their ability to put thoughts in people's heads, and make them hallucinate. That made them even more frightening. They appear ghost-like and move like shadows until they attack, and their utter alien-ness is chilling (no pun intended).
The book includes a large cast of townspeople who are stranded by the blizzard, both locals and tourists on a ski vacation. Some are so heroic, you hope they survive, while others are so despicable, you can't wait for them to get what they deserve. Of course, Johnny, the half-Ute park ranger, was my favorite. And the sense of isolation that they experience is just overwhelming.
I read this book at the height of midsummer, when it was 90 degrees outside. But Mr. Tallent's depiction of a fierce blizzard was so descriptive that when I finally put the book down and went outside, I was surprised for a second. I actually expected it to be cold and snowy. I had to remind myself, "oh, yeah, it is July." That's how fully immersed I became in the story.
I subtracted a star because I thought the book could have used an editor's touch, to clean up a few flashback scenes that were, frankly unnecessary and didn't move the plot along at all. I know they were supposed to be for character development, but they really didn't make me care any more, or less, about the person.
All in all, I loved the book and I think horror fans will enjoy it immensely.
The author of this horror/suspense novel takes an incident from Amerindian records and a legendary occurrence from the Western frontier, links them together, and then asks the question that every writer asks “What if?” The Amerindian incident is ‘The Year the Stars Fell,’ which is taken from one of the Lakota Winter Counts, now thought to be a record of the Leonid Meteor Shower, probably in 1833. The other event contributing to the plot is the infamous Donner Party, which has long since passed out of the realm of reality and into folklore and the American subconscious. And then there is the “What If?”, which led the writer to postulate something that could almost be seen as a shipwreck, with some very dangerous castaways…the ‘Winter People’ of the title, beings of the frigid wastes who can travel upon the winds and who nurture a abiding hatred (and taste) for humanity.
The book is written using rotating points of view, always third person but relating events and emotions from the being (not always human) then occupying center stage in the novel’s action. It is a writing technique that helps keep the huge cast of characters separate in the reader’s mind while at the same time adding to characterization…in addition to comments by the omniscient narrator, we also understand how the characters relate to each other and how they view themselves. The characterization helps sustain the mounting suspense, and helps propel the action-filled plot. Anybody who likes the sort of disaster/monster/alien mockbuster films lensed by The Asylum (I do!) will also like this great story, even if ‘horror’ is not necessarily your genre of choice. If the book has a drawback, it’s an inconsistency in attribution and attendant punctuation, which, admittedly, is a small one, and its importance will be determined by how much of a grammarian the reader is…me, I tend to be fairly strict, but I will also overlook small errors when reading a good story, and this is a very good story indeed.
The author's note at the end of the book states that the basic story is true and Author Tallent asked the question "What If?". What if, indeed! This was a magnificent tale that held me in its thrall from the first page to the last. I went practically insane when my kindle needed to be charged one evening before I was prepared to stop reading for the night...Aaauuugggh! When I picked it up again, I could not and did not put it down.
This is as spellbinding as any Dean Koontz novel or Clive Cussler novel and to be honest, on some levels twice as elegant. The thought that the "Winter People" could actually exist or could have at one time makes me incredibly pleased that I live in a warm spot on the planet. I could tell you more about it, tell you what happens...but why should I take the pleasure of of the read for you? You won't believe it. If you like horror, fantasy, sci-fi, Indian Lore - this book will NOT let you down. Uhmmm, try not to read it right before you go to bed, especially after chapter 2. Whooo what a ride!
Bret Tallent has a new fan in me. I am of a mind that anything that can be imagined has a basis in reality...perhaps not in this time, but in the past.
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