Dead Lake is a chilling, fast-paced read: Includes four bonus stories that will leave readers haunted.įrom bestselling horror author Darcy Coates comes Dead Lake, a cabin in the woods thriller that will make you double-check your locks at night. Stranded, alone, afraid, Sam may have become the prey in a hunter's deadliest game. He destroys her only way to communicate with the outside world. At first she tries to brush off her unease, but unnerving reports begin to surface of hikers missing from the nearby trail. A tall, strange man stands on the edge of her dock, staring intently into the swirling waters below. It isn't long before Sam realizes she's not alone out here. It's perfect.īut there's something deeply unnatural lingering by the lake. It's a chance for her to focus on her art without distractions: no neighbors, no phone, and only a small radio to keep her company.
Most of the characters are just sketches and the one who isn’t is just flat out unlikable, so the story being written as if the author lacks access to a GLOBE is too distracting.Sam is excited to spend a week at her uncle's remote lakeside cabin. It’s something I’d expect from student work, not a published author. It’s the kind of thing that might be forgivable in a B-movie screenplay where the visuals create setting, but in a novel, not specifying where the story takes place is amateurish. If a story focuses on a dangerous wilderness, geography matters.
But the author also has them say things that suggest it’s possibly in the USA or Canada. Characters speak as if their from the UK or Australia (referring to their “mobile” rather than cellphone or “holiday” rather than vacation. 15 chapters in and not a mention of where in the world we are. Every reference to the setting is either locations that are seemingly completely made up or completely nonspecific (“the country” or “the state”). I started listening and the mystery of where the heck the story was supposed to be taking place was more puzzling than the improbable story.
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