Might be scarier if read during a blizzard. Might break your heart if you've recently lost someone. Decent story and characters. Poignant. If this were a movie it would probably be appropriate on Lifetime as well as Shudder. Read his book "Road of Bones" if you want something scarier. ( )

Might be scarier if read during a blizzard. Might break your heart if you've recently lost someone. Decent story and characters. Poignant. If this were a movie it would probably be appropriate on Lifetime as well as Shudder. Read his book "Road of Bones" if you want something scarier. ( )

They come in with the snow. ( )

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. ( )

Yikes that audiobook narrator! Hopefully I get used to him. He has dramatic pronunciations of words not being used in dramatic ways. (It continued throughout the book and only truly worked for the climax):

I picked it just by browsing a shelf. Haven't done that much since GRs. Hopefully I still got it :P (ETA: meh, I do wish I pre-planned and made a better choice.) Starts out like 'Salem's Lot where there is an overwhelming amount of characters introduced. On audiobook I find it hard to keep them all sorted when they just keep coming. Thankfully googlebooks had a decent size preview and I could make a cheat sheet. By the time I'm a bit into chapter two, 15 different named people are introduced.
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Done 2.5*, rounded up. "White walkers" come in with the big blizzards. They ride the storm. When the storm dies out they have no more power to reek havoc. The havoc they reek is-- any humans they find they drag up high into the sky and drop. Then they feed on their "death" or something. That was basically the intro to the book and the remainder of the book is 12 years later when another big blizzard comes to the same town. My favorite part of the book is the slow discovery of what is going on with the victims of the first blizzard. Definitely reminiscent of my early reading experiences of Koontz and King. But it's kinda a "been there, done that" and I rather move onto other types of stories.

I think it would be a good TV series. We get to know the characters very well. Then there is a time jump of 12 years, after the "major event". It's sloggish at some points (wordy) but when it's good, it's very good with some moments of I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
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my edition no ISBN but box says 11 hours: 42 minutes ( )