Little Heaven

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Reading of their coming together as an unlikely trio was fun and established a strong dynamic that prevailed throughout.

However, the premise of this book intrigued me and it wasn't as if The Troop was bad, I just didn't find it to be the genre-redefining-blasting-Stephen-King-out-of-the-park-amazing-adventure-ride everyone else thought it was.

I admit that it took a little bit for me to get really into the story, but once the characters were all established and I got a better sense of what was going on, I fell in love and didn't want to put the book down. Everyone seems to love it but I had issues with the world building that don’t seem to have bothered others. once the dust settled, they formed an uneasy alliance and began working with each other, including a job they accepted to investigate a cult and rescue a child.

Slice-of-life family portraits as a prelude to existential horror, bit characters whose life stories are suddenly illustrated for us in gritty, detailed flashbacks just before that character suffers a grisly demise, and horrific monsters that are vaguely formed blobs of black unspeakable evil with a variety of powers emerging as the plot requires.But hold on,we actually meet Micah, Ebenezer and Minerva for the first time some fifteen years later in 1980. The most disgusting horror often comes from what people do to each other under its influence — here is where the Stephen King influence comes in, as we get glimpses into the broken childhoods and miserable adulthoods of people who becomes murderers and cult leaders or just hapless victims. This novel has not turned me off of Cutter’s works completely, and I will continue to be a fan although mostly, Cutter’s works make me want to re-read Stephen King. The reader is taken into the past, where we see how our team of bounty hunters comes together and where they first encounter the Big Bad.