The book is horror with some supernatural so i shouldd have expected the scenes of graphically described violent death. There are also a couple of very bad sex scenes at which ppoint I really lost it. There are also a few cliffhangers which get saved by the cavalry last in time. so that is why I give it the low score. It does have it's good points though. there is a little depth to the charachters with hidden or quite frankly unknown secrets which come out but the changes aren't subtle and the charachterisation is fairly in your face. The plot is, if not well researched then imaginitevly detailed about some archeological sites in Cmbodia and the activities of the Khmer Rouge and the history of Cambodia. The initial premis is intriguing but (shortly after the bad sex) there is a kind of twist where the tack changes slightly from spirituality to ideology and science to explain things but the ending I found a little flat.All in all this was a good book if you like violent gory horror with abit of an interesting plot line but I dd not find it particularly stimulating or a "must read more by this author" experience. Avoid, avoid, avoid. The plot leaps beyond stupid, dashes past the absurd and comes to such a car crash of an ending that when I closed the cover I found that I was angry that not all of the characters had shot themselves in the head and jumped off that cliff.I have never done this before, but I actually binned this book to prevent others having the misfortune of reading it, rather than donating it to a charity shop.
Do You like book La Bibbia Dei Morti (2012)?
Great book. Its about the Khmer Rouge and China and human experimentation. Some parts were dragging.
—kev
A pretty good book with stories of the genocide in Cambodia
—Hunger16
Confusing to say the least; I just couldn't finish it.
—shab
