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I Am Behind You

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Marlaine Delargy - translation
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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A supernatural super thriller from the author of Let the Right One In.

Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone, too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear. And, for just one of them, their homecoming.

This gripping conceptual horror takes you deep into one of the most macabre and unique imaginations writing in the genre. On family, on children, Lindqvist writes in a way that tears the heart and twists the soul. I Am Behind You turns the world upside down and, disturbing, terrifying and shattering by turns, it will suck you in.

©2017 John Ajvide Lindqvist (P)2017 WF Howes Ltd Horror Science Fiction Scary Fiction Heartfelt

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Certainly worth a listen. Fastest book I got through. Very odd and addictive... do it...

Weird but rather good

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Really enjoy everything by Lindqvist. He always offers a unique take on plot and pacing, this one brings a variety of different events bringing together an unusual mix of events characters and plot. No idea how the reviews are bad.

Multilayered and innovative trilogy

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Started off quickly with a very intriguing idea but as the book went on I found myself getting frustrated with how little the people were really considering their situation and at how little the plot seemed to develop into… well, anything other than lots of random interactions and extended flashbacks.

I persisted to the end and was utterly disappointed. No actual end with no explanation of any of it. The cryptic last line suggests that there may have been some grand metaphor for the whole thing, but if that was the case it was completely lost on me.

If it had a point, it got lost somewhere

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When you spend hours listening to a book for it to end like that? So frustrating!
-nothing is explained fully
- the characters are unrelateable
- the sex scenes are written in a way that makes my skin crawl
- there's around 2 full hours that really are hard work to get through

Just generally really disappointed and unfulfilled.

fumin

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Apart from the naked misogyny (women are all spiteful supermodels that the men hate but also find arousing at the same time, cuz that's healthy, or they are dim door mats with entirely void personalities, or they are psychotic little girls because of course little girls have no souls, right?) and apart from the casual reference to rape fantasies, having women actually blood fight each other, for no reason apart that they are jealous of each other (as women must always be!) there is zero plot in this drivel. If you are looking for horror you will find none here. There is not a hint of thrill as no one is doing anything to solve the main 'problem'. Just sad, pitiful back stories to the point where as a reader you lose the will to even learn the answer to the problem and you bin the book and the author for ever. I'm so grateful our generation has real horror books to enjoy, back in the day where this was all there was it must have been miserable.

Avoid, a waste of time.

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