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Mount Misery: A Novel

By: Angelo Peluso
Narrated by: Angela Starling
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There are new residents in the Long Island Sound… and they have a taste for flesh. The first time the creatures tasted human blood, their savagery went undetected. Thus begins Mount Misery, a terrific horror tale by writer Angelo Peluso. Located on the Long Island Sound, random attacks by unknown creatures are terrorizing local residents. The question: Who is going to do something about it? Marine biologist Katie DiNardo and ichthyologist Nick Tanner have seen the damage caused by their mystery creatures, but are at a complete loss as to the attacking species. All they know is that they need to get to the bottom of this - and fast. While they continue to do their research, people are dropping like flies, and if they don’t figure out what’s going on, there’s no saying what this destructive species will do next.

In a similar style to Jaws, Mount Misery is a spectacular suspense novel that grips you from the first page and doesn’t let its teeth out! Fans of horror will rejoice with Mount Misery, and listeners will enjoy the throwback style that made this genre what it is today.

©2014 Angelo Peluso (P)2014 Audible Inc. Adventure Horror Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction
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Decent enough. Enjoyed it for the most part and was pleasantly surprised as wasn't expecting a lot of anything from a random choice.

Good narration too!

Solid housework listening.

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I've never really understood the 'horror' of sea-monsters - just don't go swimming.... but that aside, I did quite enjoy this in a wincing kind of way. It hits all the classic horror story marks, gore, death, the obligatory sex scene and the triumph in the end of good over evil. And lazy ending?? Ohhh yes. Quite enjoyably dreadful. Also the narrator was fairly decent in a robotic sort of way. Slept through some of it I have to admit but I don't feel I missed anything.

So bad it's (almost) good.

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Well not a lot really, if you take out the soft sex sections there would be a few chapters of the fishy storyline. The story could have been a good one, but the narrator was hopeless. This is the third book I have listened too by this narrator and I will now give any other books a miss!!

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The erratic standard of the narration is quite off putting it fluctuates from silky smooth femininity to robotic and stilted. The dialogue needs work too. As for Rick, he has the survival instincts of a giant panda. I’ve never wanted a good guy character to become fish food as much. Overall though I enjoyed it.

The basic plot is Compelling .

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This book meanders terribly and flounders in tepid waters. The characters are the worst sort of Bobby-Sue and Mary-Sue cardboard cut outs and (spoilers) if the characters all stayed in bed then the plot of the book would have played out exactly as if they had not been in it at all.

I feel bad giving this such a bad review as this appears to be the authors' first foray into fiction but hopefully they stick to writing fishing guides.

Some of the scenes sounded as if they should have been in some sort of soft-core erotica and this is not helped by the fact that the narrator has voiced several other bodice-ripper novels, so she is obviously comfortable reading that sort of fiction.

I'm very glad I can return this book and get my credit back because it's a painful listen and I only listened to the whole thing so I could write this review.

Either avoid at all costs or play a drinking game where you take a shot every time a character says the word Fish. Believe me you'll pass out drunk in about ten minutes.

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