Little Heaven

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Tucked away in the forest, our intrepid fighters learn there are savage monstrosities hidden in the woods. just as i curse my taste buds for preventing me from enjoying the rich and varied world of olives, i curse my reading taste buds for preventing me from liking lovecraft and all books written in the lovecraftian tradition, which is also rich and varied and includes this book right here. To its credit, Little Heaven really takes the creeps and scares to a whole new level, which is extreme even for Cutter.

When Micah Shughrue wakes up to find his daughter missing, he’s terrified that a darkness from his past has come to claim her, so he enlists his former colleagues Minerva Atwater and Ebenezer Elkins to go back to the place that nearly broke them 15 yea Witty, gross, explosive and full of morally flawed characters finding redemption in the most twisted of ways. Long before this group, who have to abandon their vehicle and travel through the woods on foot, ever reach Little Heaven, the religious settlement, they are unsettled by strange and disturbing events in the woods where they camp for the night. The Deep got by on sheer entertainment value, and I was willing to give it as pass for its knowing tributes to movies like Event Horizon, The Thing, and The Abyss.In the second act, fifteen years later, Eb, Minnie and Micah have to go back, because the thing in the woods has taken Micah's daughter. A lot of reviews have criticized this as "copying" Stephen King--while I see obvious references to King's novels, I didn't feel as though they were "the same", more of a "tribute" to. For some reason, I had some trouble with the back and forth - perhaps because it took so long for things to develop. While the aphid fed on the sugars deposited in the roots, something else curled up from the blackest recesses of the earth and slipped inside the aphids body. It’s hard to know which would be less disturbing, and to Cutter’s credit, he doesn’t give us an easy answer.

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle.Personally, I wanted to be known as Lemondrop Pennyfeather, but that suggested nom de plume was cruelly stricken down. I didn't like Little Heaven quite as much as I liked Cutter's The Troop, but this was still a meaty and visceral horror novel very suitable for October reading, and plenty to keep you jumping at bumps in the night if that is the sort of thing that scares you. Bad news on the other hand for yours truly, who has always found King’s earlier work to be excessively wordy and bloated (which is why I could never get through his books like It).

And Cutter does a great job drawing out all his characters including the religious leader and his henchmen. Next, while things seemed to kind of churn around in one place for too long with nothing really going on, the ending wound up being pretty satisfactory.The novel begins with introduction of three major characters, Micah, Ebenezer and Minerva, outlaws who decide to join forces after a gunfight. Everyone seems to love it but I had issues with the world building that don’t seem to have bothered others.