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ASIN: 0374182396
ID #108512
Cold Skin: A Novel   (Rated: XGC)
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: A Non-Existent User
Review Rated: 18+
Amazon's Price: $ 25.95
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Summary of this Book...
I want to recommend this book to the readers of the Horror/Scary newsletter. It is the one book I have read so far this year in the horror genre that I will remember for a long time.

The story takes place on an isolated island in the Antarctic, right after World War One. A young man, looking to distance himself from his problems, signs on to be the weather observer for the island for one year.

When he is dropped off on the island, he finds himself alone with a crazed lighthouse keeper and monsters who come in the night from the depths of the ocean.

The story is fast paced, beautifully worded (considering it is a translation from the Catalan) first novel from an anthropologist, who explores the boundries between man and beast.

This type of Book is good for...
Lovers of horror and off beat books. If you are a Poe or Lovecraft fan, you will like this one. It is a slim book, good for reading at night.
I especially liked...
The plot is different, the setting is great, and the descriptions are hair- raising.
I didn't like...
The thought of bestiality made me squirm. I think the author meant it that way.
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to...
Make my husband read the book so we could talk about it. Which we did!
The author of this Book...
Albert Sanchez Pinol was born in Barcelona and is an anthropologist. Cold Skin is his first novel. Translated into fifteen languages, it won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize on its original publication in Catalan in 2003.

I recommend this Book because...
I haven't read a unique horror story in eons. FINALLY, something different, something to make me think, and actually a book that made me squirm!
I don't recommend this Book because...
This book is NOT for people who would be upset by violence, bestiality, and horror. Not for the squeamish.
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