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Garden of Evil
- Rook Series, Book 8
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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In the eighth book of Graham Masterton's Jim Rook series, it's the first day of the new semester, and it couldn't be going more poorly for the English teacher and psychic. Jim nearly hits a pedestrian dressed in black while on his way to the community college, but that pales in comparison to what he finds in his classroom: the corpses of a young woman and eight cats hanged from the ceiling in an apparent ritual murder. As Jim becomes locked in a struggle between good and evil, Chris Ragland's smoky intonation adds remarkable tension to Masterton's captivating plot.
Summary
Jim Rook gets the shock of his life when he returns for a new semester to find something more than unpleasant in his classroom. Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows it’s going to be a bad day. He nearly runs over someone dressed entirely in black – but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway? And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over? But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isn’t going to be merely bad: it’s going to be the day from hell. Perhaps quite literally...
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- Z DOBSON
- 20-04-23
Fairly good story
A little on the biblical side of horror but a reasonable enough book with a happy end
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- Rachel
- 05-04-23
Jim the Unlikable
I so wanted to give this story more than one star (maybe three stars for a bit of cheap and cheerful horror silliness) however our hero Jim is a real jerk:
- he’s encouraging to his students’ faces but in reality thinks they’re a bunch of imbeciles to a degree that makes me wonder why he puts himself through the ‘degradation’ of teaching kids with extra needs,
- he throws his cat multiple times,
- he makes EXCEPTIONALLY poor choices to further the plot,
- he hits and rapes a woman he fancies with the outcome being that she almost instantly forgives him and starts dating him…
Once again this is our HERO. The guy we’re supposed to be rooting for.
How do I give more than a one star to that?
Also one of the villains is called ‘Simon Silence’. That’s a children’s story character name, that’s not an adult horror villain name.
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- Mr M Machin
- 03-04-22
Poor
I like much of Graham Mastertons work, but this book was just annoying. I like a bit of far fetched story telling but everyone in this book was portrayed as stupid which just gets irritating.
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- michelle
- 17-09-21
Another great novel by GM
Loved the story!
Not keen on this narrator, but over dramatic and me being picky can hear him swallowing every minute which I can’t unhear.
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- Enigma
- 18-01-19
Disappointed
Disappointed with this one. I usually love the Jim Rook series but this one just dragged on. nothing happens till chapter 19 and even then it just couldn't make up for slow gruelling build up. unfortunately i had to skip through huge chunks to get to the end. Waste of time. but narrator was good.
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- 2_much_data
- 26-11-22
Cliched nonsense.
really irritating the way Graham Masterton has resorted to cliched hackneyed characterisation. Also initial murder just ridiculous. Didnt even finish this one because it was so vomit inducing.
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