The novel begins in a very similar way to 'Salem's Lot, with no major action happening until about halfway through both books, instead focusing on the going-ons around the small town. Soon, after arriving, the town is terrorized by.dunh dunh dunh! Those Across The River! Frank has inherited a house and land that stretches back generations and he travels there to write what he hopes to be a bestseller about the violent history of his great grandfather's slave plantation that lies in the mysterious woods across the river. It follows a couple, Frank and Eudora, moving to a small town in the Depression-era South. This book had such great potential and loads of missed opportunities. I highly recommend the audio of this novel! As for right now? I'm on to my next Christopher Buehlman book! I will be keeping an eye out for more of his work in the future. The narrator, Mark Bramhall, was absolutely phenomenal-I loved his Southern accents and voicing-they brought the story alive for me. There's nothing new or extraordinary here, but a well told and atmospheric story is always welcome on my Kindle, (and now on my phone!), and I enjoyed this immensely. What follows is a well told, atmospheric and creepy story that went in a totally different direction than what I expected. In the letter he received about the inheritance he was warned not to actually live in the house, but of course, he does so anyway-along with his fiance Eudora.
Set mostly in GA in the early 1930's, a damaged WWI veteran moves down from Chicago to a house he has recently inherited. I downloaded Those Across the River knowing nothing about it, and I think that was the best way to go in to this story. I saw this book available and remembered that my friend Tressa had just recommended me a book by this author a few days previous. I recently got a new phone that came with some fancy earbuds, so I decided to head over to Overdrive and check out an audio from my library, so I could try them out. In fact, I downloaded another of his books just now. Those Across the River is my first Buehlman, but will not be my last.
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