Little Heaven

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Not that I'm putting myself in their league, no way no how, but I'm just saying that was the idea behind the name.

Although formed adequately to catch the reader's empathy, the characters are secondary to that horror. Instead, Cutter’s story plunges us deeper and deeper into madness, slowly increasing the level of horror around the characters and never letting up. At the beginning of the novel, set in the 1980s, we meet each of the mercenaries and learn a little bit about their backstory.In some ways, this is a traditional monster horror novel — there's an evil, inhuman thing with lots of disgusting minions and it kills people in gruesome, violent ways. It is very obvious that Cutter was influenced by King; even if the author didn’t admit it himself (which he does, often), any fan of King’s would easily see the similarities. You may be able to stay his approach if you’re lucky and a little crazy, but in the end, his black eye will ferret you out.

They are surrounded by woods and ever in the shadow of a monolithic black rock that looms over the landscape.

Micah’s daughter Petty has been abducted in the dark of night and Micah is seeking the assistance of Ebenezer and Minerva to rescue her.

The ultimate, malevolent source of all that is wrong around Little Heaven, poisoning minds, killing the land, and controlling monsters, turned out really well. I didn't like Little Heaven quite as much as I liked Cutter's The Troop, but this was still a meaty and visceral horror novel very suitable for October reading, and plenty to keep you jumping at bumps in the night if that is the sort of thing that scares you. The actual plot described in the synopsis really doesn't even start until 25-30% into the book with the beginning of the story being sort of a mashed up type of character building that I kept struggling to make sense of.Now I understand that David Miscavige only a handful of people come to mind when the term “religious cult” is mentioned, but seriously with this bullshit? Over the course of the book, Cutter weaves the two timelines together, a la IT, invoking evils both human and otherwise, telling a story that is pretty good but also fairly unoriginal. Micah Shughrue is a more simple, cold, and calculated man more than willing to get his hands dirty but not without a conscience. For some reason, I had some trouble with the back and forth - perhaps because it took so long for things to develop.