Book Info
Name of Book : The House of Tongues
Author : James Dashner
Publication Date : 21 Oct 2021
Publisher : Riverdale Avenue Books
No. of Pages : 377
Format : E Book
Why did I choose the book?
I found the book, The House of Tongues by James Dashner on Netgalley. The description was interesting and other reviews were good. So, decided to read it.
Where to get the book?
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Author Introduction
James Smith Dashner (born November 26, 1972) is an American writer of speculative fiction, primarily series for children or young adults, such as The Maze Runner Series and the young adult fantasy series the 13th Reality. His 2008 novel The Journal of Curious Letters, first in the series, was one of the annual Borders Original Voices picks.
James Dashner was born on November 26, 1972, in Austell, Georgia, as one of six children in the family. He was raised a Mormon. At the age of 10, he would type on his parents' typewriter. He graduated from Duluth High School in 1991. He moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Provo, Utah to study at Brigham Young University, where he received a master's degree in accounting. Dashner and his wife, Lynette Anderson, a former student of Brigham Young University, have four children and are now living in Utah.
Blurb
The author of the New York Times best-selling Maze Runner series leads us on a dark journey of generational horror as we visit The House of Tongues.
David Player has spent 30 years trying to forget the traumas of his childhood. The threats, the kidnappings, the murders. The imagined curses of a people born centuries earlier, passed from father to son, mother to daughter, generation to generation. Its climax came in human form, a monster of a man, one of the most notorious serial killers the nation has ever seen: Pee Wee Gaskins. And Gaskins had a particular hatred for the Player family, then for David, himself, who barely escaped those years with his own life intact.
Now David is back, his four children in tow, visiting his parents’ home, a place he has learned to cherish despite the evils that haunted his younger days. But no sooner does he return than a stranger visits their doorstep, the son of Pee Wee Gaskins. In a terrifying display, right in front of the kids, the man utters threats until he chokes on his own tongue, sparking a series of events that drag David and his family back into the days of curses and murders, onto a path of unimaginable terror, all too familiar.
That path leads to an old gothic tower in the woods, a place David had blocked from his memory, a house of horrors both past and present. The House of Tongues.
My Opinion
It is my first time I am reading a book by James Dashner. I had high hopes with the book, The House of Tongues. Although, the plot opens up with a strong narrative of death and madness. The story slowly moves itself upwards with some interesting characters. But, when I reached halfway it seemed like some things were unnecessarily injected which failed to hold my interest in the book. Although, the climax was like one of the psychopath movies, but by that time I lost interest. May be the book was not for me.
I would like to give the book 3 stars. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me an opportunity to read and review the book.
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