Fires Rising (Leisure Fiction)
by Michael Laimo
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Book Reviews of Fires Rising (Leisure Fiction)
Book Review: laimo does it again
Summary: 4 Stars
When I reviewed The Demonologist for Apex Digest, I said then that Michael Laimo reminded me of good 1970s/1980s religious horror. 666, The Omen, The Amityville Horror, and everything good and similar. His February 2008 Leisure Fiction release, Fires Rising, is no exception.
This book has everything. Strong religious themes, vagrants, evil construction crews, fire, mayhem, and enough tension implied through vivid imagery to stand one's hair on end (if you'll pardon the cliché). Fires Rising isn't for the weak of stomach or the easily repulsed -- not with its sewage demon, raw gore, violence, and copious blood. Without these things, though, the story would have a much blander flavor and not as much religious fervor.
Laimo researched this book to the bone -- this is readily apparent. His use of vivid sensory imagery is near overwhelming in places, causing the reader to, instead of putting the book down for a break, keep turning the pages.
"Well done" seems inadequate. Even so, I can't wait to see what Michael Laimo brings us next.
Book Review: A Rollicking Good Read
Summary: 4 Stars
There are only a few horror writers that I count the days until they release a new work and Michael Laimo is one of them. Along with Brian Keene, Laimo is one of the Leisure authors that never fails to please me when I crack open their newest offerings. Fires Rising is a quick, pulse pounding read following in the tradition of the action oriented supernatural novels of authors like Laymon, Little, and Mastertron.
If you like your horror hard edged, contemporary, and riddled with demons and monsters instead of the yawn inspiring pyschological dreck thats passing as horror today, Fires Rising should be right up your alley.
In fact, one of the creatures Laimo conjours up in this good vs. evil tale is so bizarre and original, it is worth the price of the book alone.
Laimo's 'Deep In The Darkness' is a classic that every horror fan should have on the shelf, and Fires Rising should be sharing space next it.
So give this one a shot if you enjoy traditional religous horror stories given a comptemporay makeover.
TTzuma
Book Review: Laimo Delivers Us From Evil
Summary: 4 Stars
3 AND 1/2 STARS
Fires Rising reminded me of a nice mix of movies from filmmaker John Carpenter. Take the standoff of trapped heroes from Assault On Precinct 13 and put them in a church, then add the growing evil and possession from Prince Of Darkness and you have a fairly accurate description of Fires Rising. While I didn't relate to the characters nearly as much as I did in his earlier novels such as Deep In The Darkness or Dead Souls, I enjoyed the constant threat of danger that Michael Laimo infused throughout the book. Somewhere between a novella and a full length novel, this is one of the shorter Leisure titles I've seen. But don't let that fool you, Laimo stuffs this baby full of violence, mythology, creatures, gore, and some memorable visuals that will stay with you for quite some time. And while I agree with others that this is his best technical writing, the story didn't grab me as much as I would have liked. Still a solid recommendation that has me looking forward to Laimo's next one.
Book Review: Fast Paced-Not One Dull Moment.
Summary: 5 Stars
Fires Rising is 262 pages of non-stop horror. I mean, it seems that Michael Laimo sat down and literally tried to write a scary scene on every page and it looks as though he's done it. If I could find one thing wrong with this, it would be the obvious, that it needed more stuffing-maybe a little more character development. But with a book this packed with page after page of creepy horror, it's still a five star book, in my opinion.
This is religious horror, without being judgemental to the reader: whether you are a religious person or not, this book will do what it is supposed to do: be a good read packed with frightening scenes.
If you like the kind of religious horror that calls possessed human beings, floating chalices of blood, the end of days, good vs. evil, to mind, then you should defintely read this.
And for any horror writers out there, this is a good study in how to pack every page with action and not have it ruin the book.
Great one once again by Laimo. Enjoy!
Book Review: Horror at its best
Summary: 5 Stars
What do i look for in a good horror book?? Gallons of blood, mind bending horror scenes and good vs. evil. This is got to be the best horror novel I've read in awhile. Michael Laimo is on the rise and if you haven't read any of his books yet, you are missing out.
In this tasty apocalypse horror book a Priest and a group of homeless men are chosen to stop what is described to be the evil that promises man the end of days. While on the streets of New York demon possessed men are slaughtering people and causing destruction to the city, the ultimate battle of good and evil rage on inside a abandoned church.
This is not a book for the squeamish, I really enjoyed this book and on a shiver scale of 1 to 10, i award Fires Rising 10 sculls.