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    Snowblind
    Snowblind
    Snowblind
    Audiobook11 hours

    Snowblind

    Written by Christopher Golden

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

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    About this audiobook

    In Christopher Golden’s first horror novel in more than a decade—a work reminiscent of early Stephen King—Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age.

    The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards…but never one like this, where people wandered into the whiteout and vanished. Families were torn apart, and the town would never be the same.

    Now, as a new storm approaches twelve years later, the folks of Coventry are haunted by the memories of that dreadful blizzard and those who were lost in the snow. Photographer Jake Schapiro mourns his little brother, Isaac, even as—tonight—another little boy is missing. Mechanic and part-time thief Doug Manning’s life has been forever scarred by the mysterious death of his wife, Cherie, and now he’s starting over with another woman and more ambitious crimes.

    Police detective Joe Keenan has never been the same since that night, when he failed to save the life of a young boy…and the boy’s father vanished in the storm only feet away. And all the way on the other side of the country, Miri Ristani receives a phone call…from a man who died twelve years ago.

    As old ghosts trickle back, this new storm will prove to be even more terrifying than the last.

    Spellbinding in scope and rooted deeply in classic storytelling, Snowblind is a chilling masterpiece that is both Christopher Golden’s breakout audiobook and a standout supernatural thriller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 21, 2014
    ISBN9781480564947
    Snowblind
    Author

    Christopher Golden

    Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth Hunters, Snowblind, Ararat, and Strangewood. With Mike Mignola, he cocreated the comic book series Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He lives in Bradford, Massachusetts. 

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    • 1/5
      After LOVING his snow filled nightmare of Ararat and the scares of Halloween in his 'All Hallows' this was just the worst piece of fiction he has ever written! The best part of the book was the prologue......from there it is like watching an episode of "All My Children" in the middle of a snowstorm. Stupid and dumb people doing stupid and dumb things. So SO boring, long, and drawn out waste of 'NO HORROR at all' time. Skip this piece of junk.

      Read his other works......cannot recommend this AT ALL!
      1 snore
    • 4/5
      They come in with the snow.
    • 5/5
      Seriously enjoyed this hybrid ghost story. The narrator put it over the top even further that it was already. Loved every character, loved the fact I couldn't stop listening to it, loved the story it's self, with tragedy and love battling each other. The empathy that you feel is tough. I would say the author could have developed it a bit more and really brought home withthe mental anguish been exuded, not that it needed it but it could have really tore you up if he did. Not a blood and guts type of story but brutal in a mental way...worth the listen to...the story and the narrator will suck you in from the beginning.
    • 5/5
      Very good book, worth alyssa. Excellent story.( 1 2 3 more words. )
    • 5/5
      This was one of the best books I have herd in a while. I was hooked from the very beginning. It reminded me a bit of Stephen King, I will be keeping a watch for more books from Christopher Golden. What a great book.
    • 5/5
      Wow! Talk about sitting at the edge of your seat!
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It basically had me from the start. Perfect read for around Halloween or snow. I will be looking for more from this author.
    • 3/5
      I love how intertwined the stories were, but for some reason this one just didn’t truly grab me. Some of the abilities of certain “resurrected” characters were not believable- it broke its own lore to add side rules for these characters.

      A good book, but Ararat is much better imo.
    • 5/5
      This is a great book!!!!! Very well written! Good job
    • 4/5
      Good little ghost story. Fun twists. Nice touch at the end ??
    • 3/5
      What an interesting book. It was slow moving but i felt compelled to finish what I started. I almost wish there was more to it. Overall, a fun read.
    • 5/5
      Well written and for once very well narrated!

      You will not be disappointed. Characters well developed, you're right there with them!
    • 5/5
      Great story - scary! But it also revolves around love and family and sacrifices we make.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book, it was creepy without the blood and gore of most horror books. It was a little slow at times but kept me listening. Just imagine amid a bad snow storm the lights are out and you happen to look out the window....... Chilling, good read.

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    • 4/5
      This is the second novel I have read/listened to by Christopher Golden. I enjoyed this one a lot more than the first one I read. I loved the idea of something waiting in the blizzard to take its victims. Definitely will continue to read/listen to more of his books.

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    • 2/5
      The story didn't kick into gear until about 75% of the way in. So much time was spent baldly establishing the 1 dimensional characters and situations that any dramatic reveals had been clearly hinted at earlier. The action is short and probably the most passive climax I've read in a thriller.

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    • 4/5
      Well done. I enjoyed the story. I loved the ending.

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    • 4/5
      I feel like this was a great book to start with to begin my Halloween reading odyssey. Scary, but not too scary. Mostly suspenseful, but with horrifying elements. It really felt more like reading an old fairy tale.

      Story is definitely plot-driven. There are far too many characters to have any of them drawn in great detail. But I liked having all of the different stories, like windows in the neighbors' houses.

      This really feels like classic horror. The kind that is terrifying while you're reading it, but that you can walk away from with only a slight, lingering unease. Until the winter storms come. Then I'll be up all night.
    • 3/5
      Snowblind (2010) marks the beginning of Ragnar Jónasson’s earliest crime fiction series, a series that has come to be called the author’s “Dark Iceland” books. There are now five other books in the Dark Iceland series, including 2020’s Winterkill. From what I understand, the order of the books as they were internationally published differs from the order in which they were originally published in Iceland, so it’s not clear to me how closely one plot from the series chronologically follows its Icelandic predecessor. Snowblind appears to be Jónasson’s debut novel, as I don’t find anything of his having been published in Iceland prior to this one’s 2009 publication in that country. The novel, while certainly not my favorite of the Jónasson novels I’ve read to this point, shares many of the characteristics that readers love most about the author’s work: a strong sense of place, well-developed characters, attention to police procedural details, and crimes (usually murders) perpetrated by truly warped criminal minds. Ari Thór Arason is a rookie policeman who eagerly moves to Siglufjöròur, a little town in far north Iceland, to begin his first job. He accepts the job offer over the telephone, however, and his enthusiasm about working in such an isolated town is hard to maintain after he realizes exactly what he has gotten himself into. He is the outsider; everyone knows who he is, but he knows no one. Even worse for him as a policeman, he knows nothing about anyone’s past relationships or the social history of his community. That is a huge disadvantage when investigating a crime in a community as small as the one he’s now committed himself to working and living in for the next two years. But as his new boss tells him, nothing much ever happens in Siglufjöròur anyway. And that’s true…right up until the moment that two dead bodies are discovered, one of them more obviously the body of a murder victim than the other. The most prominent of the two victims is an elderly man who appears to have fallen to his death down a flight of theater stairs while there alone. The man is internationally famous because of a book he wrote decades earlier, and his death, especially a suspicious one, still has the potential to draw the world’s interest. The other body belonged to a near-naked young woman who is discovered lying in the snow in almost a “snow angel” position by a young neighbor of hers. At first, Thór is the only one who suspects foul play. Others in town, including Thór’s own boss are more than willing to believe that the old man’s death had been an accident and the young woman’s a suicide. Despite his ignorance of local politics and relationships, Thór begins to take “crime scene” pictures and ask uncomfortable questions. And when someone breaks into his home in the middle of the night, he realizes that he might just be on to something. Now he only needs to get someone else to take him seriously.Bottom Line: While the mystery in Snowblind is rather run-of-the-mill and holds few real surprises, this is a novel that has such intriguing characters and such an interesting setting that I enjoyed reading it. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
    • 3/5
      I'll never think of a big snowstorm in the same way again, what with the supernatural goings-on in this story. Creepy and atmospheric. What lowered the rating for me was the profusion of profanity and too much [graphic] sex for my taste, but the basic story was solid.
    • 4/5
      A chilling offering featuring a group of spirits that visit a small Connecticut town during a major blizzard. It seems for the last 12 years there is a blizzard with bizarre happenings that no one can explain taking place. The reader encounters the horrors in the very beginning of the story with the original horror-show inflicted on the town and then the aftermath the residents must somehow live with. The question for the town folk is what will come out of the blizzard this time and who will be left?
    • 5/5
      Thrilling, gripping and icecold.
    • 4/5
      An enjoyable ‘chiller’ that takes place during two horrendous snowstorms. I would have liked to get to know the characters and cared for them a little more but the development and depth is what one expects of the genre. This somewhat different ghost story contained enough of a twist and creepiness to keep me entertained and I like the reveal of the truth behind the cause of the disappearances. It’s possible to imagine some scenes done well made into a film.
    • 4/5
      3.5/5 stars.

      The small New England town of Coventry is hit by a blizzard. People hunker down for the night, prepared to ride out the power outages and snow with their loved ones. Other people ride through the night, protecting the citizens of Coventry. And some people, some very unfortunate people, encounter the things that live inside the blizzard, and those people die.

      Long years later another blizzard is coming, and the people of Coventry who lived through the earlier blizzard are naturally apprehensive. But no one is prepared for what this blizzard will bring because with it comes the dead and those things who are chasing them.

      Snowblind was eerie and enthralling. I enjoyed the different ways people coped with the tragedy of the first blizzard and how that shaped them into the people who were able to battle the second. As a New Englander who has been through many a blizzard I can say that Golden captured the frightening feeling of being alone in the dark with only the sound of the falling snow to let you know that anything else exists. Great book.

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    • 4/5
      Summer is the perfect time to read Snowblind, and preferably with people or a dog around.
    • 5/5
      This book is a stunning piece of storytelling and scene setting. The author really knows how to make it three dimensional, and in a horror piece, that gets to ya. Through a seamless integration of description, dialogue, and atmosphere, Snowblind comes alive in such a way as to make the ghosts, monsters, and lost ones breathe with detail. Something has to be said for the pacing as well. There is not one place in this novel that is wasted storytelling. Every paragraph serves a purpose and draws you ever further into the tribulations of Coventry and its inhabitants. I loved the horror elements in this book. It was at times in your face but also it could be very subtle. A wisp of snow on the wind, a voice on that same wind, a faint figure dancing in the distance… More times than I can count I was shivering in more than just cold and leaving my light on. I also liked how not every character got their happy ending; some of the innocent bystander characters were lost along the way. And the end was very ambiguous. I loved that! The reader is left not knowing if all the lost souls got to “cross over” or if something else entirely happened. And the very end scene with the blue eyes? Yeah, still makes me ponder and grin at the great suspense and horror.The characters are as three-dimensional as the settings in this novel. Everyone has their virtues and vices, their goals, ambitions, and drive. I was enthralled reading how everyone dealt with their own horror experiences and seeing how it changed them twelve years later when the next big storm hit. How each character dealt with their losses and seeing how it changed them and their relationships was the meat of the story for me. This novel is a shining example of how horror should be. Intricate storytelling, atmospheric scene setting, three-dimensional characters, and horror elements that keep the lights on, this novel has them all. Highly recommended for a read in this Halloween month, just don’t forget the blanket to hide under.
    • 4/5
      The people who live in Coventry, Massachusetts are used to blizzards, but this one was one of the worst on record; both for the duration of the storm and the 18 people that disappeared. They didn’t wander off and get lost in the snow, to be found later. Nope, they just disappeared. Of the people left behind Jake Shapiro has the worst time of it when the snow starts every year, because he recalls his little brother falling (being pulled?) through their bedroom window before his very eyes. Twelve years later another super-storm is predicted for Coventry and the townspeople are getting very anxious about it again. But this time things are different … some people are coming back!

      This book had an amazing introduction by Stephen King and I was anticipating a really good ghost story as I started reading Snowblind. Admittedly, I am a little bit of a “ghost story snob” so I have to say this was not technically a ghost story. The horror element in the book was excellent. It was a reasonably fresh concept, similar to “The Returned” but with the scary factor amped up considerably. There was a considerable amount of time spent on the back-story for the main characters and, although some reviewers disagree, I think it added interest to the book. I cared about what was happening to the characters because I knew why they were acting a certain way. It made me want to keep reading. Despite the questionable nature of the “ghosts” Mr. Golden has given me one of the better horror novels I have read so far this year.
    • 3/5
      I got bit again. I did not notice that there was a recommendation from Stephen King on this book. I have vowed that the books I like and the ones he likes are never the same. It is not that this story was bad, or poorly written, it was just boring, and way too long. Chop out 200 pages and it would have been better.
    • 4/5
      Twelve years ago 18 people were lost in the town of Coventry. The rumors persist that there was something out in the storm that took the souls that were lost that night. And now another record breaking storm is on the way. In that storm, the living and the dead will fight to survive. This was an interesting and chilling book. I love books about snow storms. I am not really sure why. But this is a really good one. We get to know the people who survived and how their lives changed after that storm. And we get to know the lost. The monsters in the snow are never really explained and maybe it is better that way. If I was any of the folks from this story I would be packing my bags for Florida, stat.
    • 4/5
      This was my first "Golden" book - nicely creepy - and the story held together. It's probably not my favorite form of reading material but every now and then a good ghost story is a good diversion.