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    Beware
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    Audiobook6 hours

    Beware

    Written by Richard Laymon

    Narrated by Charles Bice

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Using ancient black magic, a dangerous, vindictive maniac is made all-powerful by his ability to become invisible. Raping and murdering his way around the States, he is biding his time before fulfilling his one desire—to get even with the high school belle who rejected him years before.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9781511393836
    Beware
    Author

    Richard Laymon

    A former President of the Horror Writers Association, Laymon has written over thirty novels, more than sixty-five literary short stories (which were published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier), poetry, crime fiction, two suspense novels, a Western, and two romance novels. Until recently, his books were unavailable in the US for more than twenty years. His novel Flesh was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle, and both Flesh and Funland were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He won this award posthumously in 2001 for The Traveling Vampire Show. Richard Laymon died in 2001 of a heart attack.

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    • 4/5
      Brutal, blutig und spannend!

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    • 3/5
      It was a decent read, nothing outstanding. It got a bit cheesy in a few places but the basic plotline was pretty danged interesting and a little out of the ordinary. Very graphic in violence and in sexual assault. I did not care for the ending. It just stopped. I was also confused by the last 2 or 3 chapters and had to read and re-read because I knew what had happened but not how it had happened. If you want a horror book that is a fast and fairly interesting read, I would recommend this one. Definitely a beach read or plane read.
    • 3/5
      In Beware, the story starts off with Lacey Allen, a small town reporter, who is covering attacks by a mysterious assailant making attacks at a local market. Lacey is stalked and attacked by this assailant, who turns out to be invisible. After she escapes, she is on the run. In a separate story line, Dukane, a combination of James Bond and GI Joe, is extracting a rich girl from a VooDoo cult. This cult is your stereotypical, not remotely believable all powerful, omnipresent group that can accomplish just about everything. While Lacey is on the run, she runs into Scott, a thriller author. In a ridiculous, absurd coincidence, Scott is best friends with Dukane, who comes out to help Lacey against her invisible killer.The basic premise of this story is good, and the writing is competent and professional. The plot needs a good bit of work however. The coincidences are a bit much to accept, and there are massive plot holes. The characters are also one-dimensional and not terribly true to life. I also didn't remotely care for the careless and flippant way Laymon handled the rapes that occurred during the novel. Beyond that the book was oversexed, as if the author was trying to put in sex wherever he could even when it didn't make much sense. Still, there was some positive aspects to the novel. It was brief and fast moving and fairly entertaining.Carl Alves - author of Blood Street
    • 3/5
      Meh...A man turned invisible through voodoo is torturing and killing people while also on the run from the priestess who turned him invisible for her own nefarious purposes. I would have been more interested in more of the voodoo stuff and less of the invisible psychopath. It was just okay.
    • 3/5
      Beware - Richard Laymon ***My 6th book by Laymon so I know what to expect in terms of violence and graphic sex. I just didn'y enjoy this as much as his other works, at times it just seemed very rushed and without any of the twists I usually enjoy.Lacey Allen is a reporter but she is being terrorised (raped etc) by an invisible man, Can she escape? And how is the cult governed by Laveda connected?Worth a look but by far not Laymon's best.
    • 4/5
      Entertaining "invisible man" story.