Synopsis"When dark creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For in the winter's blackest hours,
Comes the feasting of the Vours,
No one can see it, the life they stole,
Your body's here but not your soul..."
THE VOURS: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice.
When Reggie reads about the Vours in a mysterious old journal, she assumes they are just the musings of an anonymous lunatic. But when her little brother, Henry, begins to act strangely, it's clear that these creatures exist beyond a madwoman's imagination, and Reggie finds out what happens when fears come to life.
To save the people she loves, Reggie must learn to survive in a world of nightmares. Can she devour her own fears before they devour her?
The Devouring is an engrossing tale of terror that will have you wondering: what if your worst fears became your living nightmare?
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I felt when I first picked up this novel that there wouldn't be enough meat, as they call it, to fill me up. Sadly, I was right. It's a good story and the characters all in all aren't bad. However there just was not enough of this story so that I was really interested. It could have been so much better had the author pushed a little and expanded the story line.
Maybe it's because I'm not a horror fan, but I didn't like Reggie much. She seemed impossibly all over the place to me. First she didn't believe in the Vours, then she did, again she didn't. Then suddenly she's super Reggie who knows the answers to everything, just because she knows all the horror stories.
Not sure if I'll continue this series. Maybe if a friend buys them and I don't have any other alternatives... Who knows. I think I'll stick to the thicker books. I read so much it's hard to be totally absorbed when I know the story won't last long.
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