Afin de faire face aux inondations qui ravagent la ville de Perdido, un ingénieur est engagé pour faire construire une digue sur les berges. Un second volume de la saga des Caskey plus sombre que le premier, peut-être moins directement fantastique, mais plus inquiétant et qui noue des relations familiales plus malfaisante encore. Un plaisir de lecture. ( )

Blackwater continue avec le tome deux pour s’éloigner sensiblement de Elinor et s’orienter sur les jeux de pouvoir au sein de la famille Caskey avec son omnipotente marâtre Mary-Love.

Un clan qui ne cesse de s’agrandir et, en même temps, de perdre certains de ses membres mystérieusement. La digue s’installe. Elinor et la rivière semblent s’en accommoder…

Vivement la suite dans une atmosphère toujours aussi pesante. Un délice de malaise visqueux ( )

This series is becoming a guilty pleasure. Why guilty? Because it's really a soap opera dressed up as a horror, with very little horror in it.

Still, the dynamics across all the players is simply delicious, all the schemes and counter schemes. And the fact that they're all played out against the larger story of what exactly will happen to this town toward the end just draws out the suspense.

It's a slow creep, but it's a slow creep that's done right.

I have absolutely no idea how this has not been snapped up as a Netflix or HBO series. It would be perfect. ( )

I don't know why I picked up the Blackwater series. I'm glad I did though. Originally this was a series of pulp fiction paperbacks, but it deserved much better treatment than that. ( )

For the greater good
sacrifices must be made
family comes first. ( )