The Hive
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The Hive
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Narrated by:
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Paul Bellantoni
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By:
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Ronald Malfi
The residents of Mariner's Cove are changing . . .
In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday items left scattered upon the lawns, the streets, and the shoreline all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost everyone, and each item has a certain hold over the person who finds it—a hold that soon turns into unwavering infatuation. They hide their items from each other, obsess over them, and they will do anything—anything—to protect them.
The collective hum of bees' wings . . .
A young boy finds himself the possessor of a strange and inexplicable power. Is the arrival of this power linked to the increasingly odd and dangerous behavior of the residents of Mariner's Cove? Has he been granted this power in order to thwart whatever is about to happen in this small, bayside community, or is there a more sinister purpose?
All hail the Dragon . . .
All eyes are on him now. The residents of Mariner's Cove are watching. They move as one, like a solitary organism, and will do anything to succeed in their single-minded purpose.
They will not be stopped.
It had the same effect on me as discovering Stephen King way back in the 70s and 80s, transporting me to such a realistic yet thoroughly alien environment (I grew up in a big city in Europe, and had no idea that 'small town America' even existed, never mind what it looked and felt like, and/or that at least 50% of Americans lived in small towns rather than New York or Vegas like in the movies...
This is now my go-to genre for creepy chills, and without too much (just enough) yucky blood and gore and having sucked every Stephen King novel dry over the years am now in the process of discovering the best of the rest - and I have found Ronald Malfi to be way ahead of the pack.
Perfect characters who you can actually care about, and a wonderful atmosphere of ever increasing dread...What more could you ask ?! They're usually nice and long too, which I like.
Can't recommend this author highly enough, and this book (along with 'The Narrows') is one of his very best.
"The Hive"
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Good
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Amazing Lovecraftian type of horror story
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Boring
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