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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs 
Following a shaky opening Revival is becoming rather good. The first couple of chapters were all about a kid seeing a methodist preacher in his local church which wasn't an entirely enthralling sixty pages. However the story is set over decades and said kid has has now gone to high school picked up a guitar, joined a band, got laid and so on across the next seventy pages and it was much more interesting.
It's really picking up now and i'm expecting the return of the preacher and some sort of Occult pact.
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Slightly wrong in thinking of Occult pacts.
Revival really isn't a horror novel for 85% of the time. It's only in the last forty pages that true horror breaks out.
However it was well worth the wait and i didn't see it coming.
There's a quote at the beginning of the book from a cult author that reads -
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even death may die."
Which actually is a pointer to the finale and a spoiler, however being a book you don't actually know that until you get to it. It's not like it was in the trailer or anything.
As i mentioned earlier. I'm quite impressed with myself. Going almost two years and reading just a single book over last Christmas to reading four in the month of October -
'Salem's Lot, All Hallows, Night in the Lonesome October and
Revival.
Going to start on
Sharpe's Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 this evening.