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Virus Hardcover – 10 May 2007

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Something lurking in the woods threatens to destroy an entire town in Sarah Langan's brilliantly crafted second novel.

Lois Larkin should never have taken her class to the woods for the field trip. Preoccupied by the betrayal of her fiance she never even notices when little James Walker doesn t get back on the bus and suddenly the quiet, prosperous town of Corpus Christi is plunged into tragedy and united in shock.

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Publisher : Headline; 1st edition (10 May 2007)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0755333721
ISBN-13 : 978-0755333721
Dimensions : 15.9 x 24.2 x 3.2 cm

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Sarah grew up on Long Island and went to college in Waterville, Maine, where she published her first story, SICK PEOPLE. She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing novels, she is also pursuing her Master,s in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology at New York University.

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Dantel

Wrong genre?

Reviewed in Germany on 5 May 2020

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I really tried hard to like or at least somewhat enjoy this book, but it was impossible. While Sarah Langan might be a talented author, for me she has clearly not found the right genre yet.

If you want to read about emotional problems of middle aged(ish) women - in very great detail - then yeah knock yourself out, this is the book for you. Otherwise you might want to look somewhere else.

The biggest issue is that one character is introduced after another and their completely irrelevant problems are filling page after page. I have read over 1/3 of the book, was desperately waiting for something interesting to happen, when yet another character was thrown at me. At this point I wanted all of them to die already just so they shut up.

Another issue is that it tries really hard to be a "horror book", so much that you can not help but notice. One example is the arousal of the protagonists while they eat dirt or other nasty stuff. I do not mind sexual references at all, but this is so completely irrelevant and only exists because the author wanted this to be as gross as possible. Cut it out and you lose nothing of the feel or the message, it would just be less silly.

Well, to keep it short, it is not my cup of tea. In my eyes this "style" is better suited for other genres.

Andrea

Very good

Reviewed in Canada on 21 November 2012

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The barcode sticker was annoying because it doesn't come off easily. The book was in good shape, like they described.

Aims2583

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2015

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Good read.. similar to stephen king..

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Fred

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2014

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Mental but I enjoyed it...Some very disturbing bits that were OTT

Anathema Device

" I liked that novel because it wasn't solely horror--but was also ...

Reviewed in the United States on 11 July 2014

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I read Sarah Langan's first novel in this series called "The Keeper." I liked that novel because it wasn't solely horror--but was also about love, forgiveness, environmental issues, women's issues--it had multiple layers and I liked the ending. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy "The Missing" nearly as much as I did "The Keeper." Having said that, it's not a poorly written horror story by any means. In fact I would say it is much more a conventional horror novel than her previous book. I think that's what made me more disappointed in this novel, it lacked the many layers her last novel did and it made no coherent sense with her last novel.

*Spoiler Warning if you keep reading this review* In "The Keeper," we have a sort of sense of the mysterious things that underlie our destruction of each other and the earth, and their embodiment in a kind of "witch" of sorts--a woman who is almost like a "sin eater" in that she harbors all kinds of horrors, such that when she dies those horrors spill over into the waking world that caused them. But at the end of that novel you have redemptive love and a sense of peace, even if many things had to be destroyed to get there. With "The Missing," it's as if the author tried to take all kinds of themes, like the fact that many different civilizations have just gone missing over the centuries, and combine that with a new life form that inhabits humans, yet rises out of the ashes of this incident that happened in the small town of Bedford from the first novel. It's a mish-mash that doesn't make any sense with what came before it. I wish she had simply written this book as a stand-alone and didn't link it to the last one.

All of this isn't to say it's "totally horrible," which is why I gave it 3 stars. It's definitely readable and enjoyable and a horror novel and a pretty good one at that, it just makes little sense to link this to the last novel she wrote in any way. Here there is no redemption, only payback.

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