Night Waves
Something Has Been Set Free
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Off the south of England, an old evil has been set free... While drilling out at sea, the ill-fated crew of a rig have released something old, something that’s been waiting to return to the surface...a hive of sea sirens; Creatures that need human hosts to survive and human faces to lure people to their demise. Kirsten Costello is a model from East London. Bored of her vacuous existence, she leaves her old life of excess behind and moves to Brighton with her cousin Simone. After a random attack one night under Brighton Pier, Kirsten becomes the object of one of the creature's obsession. Psychically linked by its scratch, she becomes a beacon for its desire to use her body as its own and be the face they need. Always knowing where she is, constantly stalking her by night, it seems there is no way to escape. With the help of Simone, her girlfriend Geena, and local Clairvoyant, Melissa Clarke, Kirsten must fight back against the creature, as it tries to drag her back down below into the depths, down into the Night Waves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shape-shifting monsters crawl from the sea to assail modern-day Brighton, England, in this lurid, predictable horror-thriller. When an offshore drilling operation ruptures an underwater crypt, it sets free vicious, sharp-toothed and sharp-clawed sirens who steal the faces of the victims they violently murder. Kirsten Costello, seeking a new start in Brighton after breaking with an unpleasant modeling career in London, narrowly escapes a siren that becomes fixated on pursuing her, hell-bent on taking her body and then her life. Irons makes some movements toward reflections on dual lives, personas, and identity, but the book is ultimately done in by a lack of subtlety. The bombastic prose and heavy-handed sensationalism (including lesbian sex scenes clearly written for the lascivious male gaze) make it feel overwrought, with mindless sirens who lack believable motives or characterization, and an ending that is unsatisfyingly full of empty gore. These B-movie monsters rate barely a C.
