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Pâques 1919, alors que les flots menaçant Perdido submergent cette petite ville du nord de l'Alabama, un clan de riches propriétaires terriens, les Caskey, doivent faire face aux avaries de leurs scieries, à la perte de leur bois et aux incalculables dégâts provoqués par l'implacable crue de la rivière Blackwater.

Menés par Mary-Love, la puissante matriarche aux mille tours, et par Oscar, son fils dévoué, les Caskey s'apprêtent à se relever… mais c'est sans compter l'arrivée, aussi soudaine que mystérieuse, d'une séduisante étrangère, Elinor Dammert, jeune femme au passé trouble, dont le seul dessein semble être de vouloir conquérir sa place parmi les Caskey.

250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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Michael McDowell

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Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.

His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.

In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.

Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to maintain a sense of mundane normalcy against supernatural activity provides the novel with "a fine balance between reality and unreality," and he called Cold Moon Over Babylon "one of the best ghost stories ever written at novel length."

A similarly disturbing tension between dull reality and the supernatural is produced in The Elementals, wherein a host of visitors come to stay at a secluded house occupied by embodiments of elemental forces.

McDowell's Katie, meanwhile, concerns a clairvoyant serial killer whose powers of perception enable her to evade her trackers. The attractive but deranged heroine of this novel manages to conduct her murderous activities despite the awareness of her parents, who are content to derive financial gain from their daughter's crimes.

Madness is central to McDowell's Toplin, which details the vile imaginings of a man who suffers from mental illness but nonetheless determines to conduct himself within society. D'Ammassa praised Toplin as "perhaps the best novel ever written from the point of view of a schizophrenic."

Among McDowell's other writings is the six-part serial novel Blackwater, a chronicle of a southern family drawn to the supernatural. In addition, McDowell has also supplied the screenplays for various films, including director Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice and his animated production The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Stephen King called McDowell one of the "finest writers of paperback originals in America today." Tabitha King was asked to complete McDowell's unfinished novel Candles Burning, which was published in 2006 to good reviews. Concerning his career, McDowell never tried to be something he wasn't. "I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that", he said in the book Faces of Fear in 1985. "I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages."

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Author 7 books1,232 followers
March 21, 2019
I'm just discovering Michael McDowell. He wrote many books, mostly horror novels, but was also the brains behind Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas. Apparently this Blackwater series is considered his magnum opus. This first book was certainly captivating enough for me to continue on to Book 2. Initially my reaction wasn't so positive, however. After an eerie, supernatural opening, the story steers into seemingly ordinary domestic squabbles. It actually reminded me a lot of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, or maybe Steinbeck's Cannary Row. Certainly not the in-your-face frights that the cover implied.

About halfway through, I stopped worrying about when the beasties would show up and savored the uniqueness. This isn't your typical horror novel, and that's what makes it satisfying. The ending shocker firmly establishes what I suspect will be the central conflict moving forward--matriarchal power.

Like any good creepy tale, the fear and surprise works best when it's rooted in realism. The large cast of characters are vivid and recognizable, and even Eleanor--with all her mystery--seems like someone real. Maybe even someone I know. I don't know how "scary" this series will end up being, but even if it is a magical realism remix on Cannery Row, I have a feeling it's going to be good.

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1,809 reviews1,738 followers
September 7, 2014

This book has it all for any horror fan!

Creepy creature masquerading as human? Check!

Southern gothic style tale set in a small town? Check!

Horrible happenings surrounded in mystery? Check!

Vivid characters and scenes that are easily and perfectly rendered in your mind? Check!

All the small town, gossipy mean-ness and the grit of day to day life? Check!

Combine all that yumminess with a writer possessing a mastery of the language, without being too cheesy, without being pretentious, and with an eye towards FUN. You can't go wrong!

This is a novella, so it doesn't take long to whip through. It's also a cliffhanger. I normally hate that, but in this case I knew that it was a serial novel so I expected and embraced that ending, secure in the knowledge that I have book 2 ready to go. What I have right here is the literary equivalent of binge watching. Right on!
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Author 6 books251k followers
July 5, 2019
”The town rotted beneath a wide sheet of stinking, still black water, which only now was beginning to recede. The pediments and gables and chimneys of houses that had not been broken up and washed away jutted up through the black shining surface of the flood, stone and brick and wooden emblems of distress. But no assistance came to their silent summonses, and driftwood and unidentifiable detritus and scraps of clothing and household furnishings swept against them and were caught and formed reeking nests around those upraised fingers.”

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Elinor Dammert arrives with the flood.

No one is sure how she survived the flood in that room in the Hotel Osceola. Bray Sugarwhite, the black man accompanying Oscar Caskey in a boat when they liberate Elinor through the window of that hotel room, might have said it best. ”He stared at the back of the young woman who had had no business at all being found where she was found.”

The waterline on the wall paper in that room is higher than what she could have survived.

Maybe she has gills and webbed feet.

That is a knee slapper of a thought.

The arrival of a new woman, a teacher, is an exhilarating occurance in a town where, ”the most exciting thing to do in Perdido is sit on the bank of the river and count the dead possums floating by!”

She moves in with Oscar’s Uncle James, who needs someone to help him with his daughter Grace after his wife Genevieve went on an extended holiday to Nashville and never came back. She likes to drink and have a good time. James ”despite the possession of that wife and daughter---had the reputation of being marked with ‘the stamp of femininity.’”

That “stamp” keeps the town from whispering too much about a single, lovely, redheaded woman living in the house of a married man while the wife is on “holiday.”

Now Mary-Love Caskey, mother of Oscar and sister of James, doesn’t like Elinor, not one bit. It doesn’t help her not to like her, knowing how much James appreciates her or having to watch Oscar looking at her with doe eyes, like a moon sick calf. She doesn’t like the fact that Elinor is odd by nature and that she doesn’t know her people.

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Strange, unusual things start happening beyond the normal strange things that seem to be a hallmark of Southern living. Those peculiar things about the South that so inspired William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Pat Conroy to capture those essences on paper. Jewelry buried with a corpse suddenly reappears, and people go missing; there are strange noises, bumps and bangs, and doors shimmy and shake in ways they shouldn’t. ”’Oh, Mama,’ she pleaded in a whisper, ‘don’t open that door.’”

Of course, Mama hasn’t watched the movies that I’ve watched over the years. The golden rule of horror cinema is...never...open...the...door.

The novel spirals more and more out of control as Elinor and Mary-Love become more creative in their battles to control each other.

Michael McDowell wrote this six part series in the 1980s. It was the first serialized horror novel that I had ever encountered. The mass market originals were published by Avon books and have these distinctive creepy black covers. Copies in very good to fine condition are becoming quite collectible. I had many, many copies goes through my hands over the years of working in the used book business. This serialization actually inspired Stephen King, who is a big fan of McDowell’s writing, to serialize The Green Mile in 1996.

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Did you hear something, Michael McDowell?

McDowell was a collector of death memorabilia, which might account for some of the disturbing descriptions that he uses in his writing. He was born in Alabama and died in Massachusetts, unfortunately, at the tender age of 49. Yet another creative person lost to the AIDS epidemic. He knew the South intimately. I could tell by the descriptions of these colorful characters that he created them in similar fashion to how Frankenstein assembled his monster, with pieces and parts of numerous people.

As you can tell by the opening quote I started this review with, his books ooze with gothic nuances. The novel on the surface feels so normal, but underlying the words is this feeling of impending doom and the sizzling hum of menacing danger. The reader knows things aren’t quite right, but we don’t know exactly why.

So get your feet wet ”in the churning water dyed the color of the clay beneath---dyed red, Perdido red” and swelter a while with the people of Alabama as they clean up their water swollen hymnals, bump the alligators off their front porch, and try to restore their town to dryland. Rest assured, I’ll be reading the rest.

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747 reviews
February 19, 2024
4,5⭐
Me ha encantado. Una saga que promete.

Dice la sinopsis:
Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y Óscar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único objetivo: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste.

Mis impresiones:

Primera entrega de las seis que componen esta saga. Adictiva desde el minuto uno y con el estilo inconfundible de Michael McDowell. Prosa directa, ritmo muy ágil, diálogos atractivos y la maestría que le caracteriza a la hora de dosificar información e intriga.

En este primer volumen, McDowell nos pone en contexto. La acción se sitúa en 1919 en Perdido, un pueblo pequeño de Alabama en el que confluyen dos ríos, el Perdido y el Blackwater. Allí viven los Caskey, una de las principales familias de la zona, dueña de un aserradero. Mary Love, la matriarca, gobierna a su familia con mano de hierro, hasta que llega Elinor Dammert, una enigmática mujer salida de no se sabe dónde, que va a trastocar ese orden de cosas. A partir de su llegada, una serie de hechos inexplicables, algunos de los cuales ponen los pelos de punta.

McDowell tiene la virtud de ambientar sin parar la acción. La atmósfera que genera es de nota. He llegado a mascar el lodo, sentir la omnipresente humedad, oler el limo de la riada, visualizar las aguas rojas del Perdido, las negras del Blackwater, los robles de agua y hasta las camelias que separan las casas de Mary Love y James Caskey.

Los personajes quedan bien trazados. Los miembros de la familia Caskey no tienen desperdicio, no se salva ni uno. No digo más, es mejor conocerlos con la lectura. Elinor Dammert, de la que no sabemos ni quién es ni qué es ni por qué se acerca a los Caskey, es más siniestra que todos ellos juntos. McDowell nos permite conocer datos que desconocen los habitantes del pueblo, pero nos deja sin respuestas sobre su procedencia, naturaleza y motivaciones. La intriga no es poca. Habrá que esperar a las siguientes de la saga.

El final a cuchillo. Nos deja con la miel en los labios. No vamos a encontrar respuestas aquí, solo preguntas, intriga y ganas de saber. Recordemos que son seis libros y que afortunadamente se van a publicar con intervalos de quince días. Deseando el siguiente. Recomendable.
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1,026 reviews710 followers
January 23, 2023
[4.5]

Una saga familiare, elementi oscuri, gotici e soprannaturali. UN CONNUBIO PERFETTO.
Sono stata rapita fin da subito perché – anche se in questo primo volume sembra succedere ben poco (e comunque due morti già ci stanno eh quindi insomma, proprio poco poco non succede) – si comincia con due fiumi che sono esondati, città nel caos, una donna che salta fuori dal nulla, la matriarca della famiglia (nonché una delle donne più importanti del paese per via della famiglia di appartenenza) che fin da subito non è convinta della tipa saltata fuori all’improvviso, e sembra l’unica (o quasi) che si rende conto che qualcosa non torna, e via coi pettegolezzi, e via con la famiglia che battibecca e via con i cittadini che chiacchierano e additano e sogghignano CIOÈ DAI COME FACCIO A NON AMARE UNA COSA DEL GENERE.
Poi mi chiedo una cosa: sono io troppo naïve o effettivamente il personaggio di Elinor sembra costruito molto bene? Mi spiego. Elinor è chiaramente quella cattiva; non tanto perché è misteriosa e mezzo mostro marino, ma proprio perché due morti ci stanno e tutti e due sono morti per mano sua (e se di un personaggio si può pensare: “be’ se l’è meritato”, dell’altro proprio non possiamo pensare una cosa del genere). Però io ogni tanto ho anche pensato: “ma è davvero così cattiva? Perché mi sembra che voglia bene a questa bambina qua, che voglia proteggere quest’altra bambina qua” e via dicendo. Certo, poi m’ammazza questo e quest’altro, però a volte sembra un personaggio più grigio che nero. Come se l’autore ci volesse far pensare che sia facile giudicare da quel poco che sappiamo e leggiamo, ma in realtà è ben altra la verità. E forse non esistono personaggi completamente buoni e quelli completamente cattivi. O forse sono io che voglio trovar del buono in chiunque. Immagino lo scoprirò con i prossimi volumi.
Comunque bello, a me questo volume è piaciuto proprio tanto e non vedo l’ora di continuare con i seguiti.
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400 reviews1,125 followers
April 10, 2024
El primer volumen de la saga Blackwater que tanta fama y comentarios despierta.

Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y Óscar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único objetivo: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste.

Michael Macdowell escribió libros y guiones en su mayoría novelas de terror, pero también fue el cerebro detrás de Beetlejuice y Pesadilla antes de Navidad. Como todo lo de Tim Burton me fascina pues caerá todo de este autor.

Al parecer esta saga llamada Blackwater se considera su obra maestra.

Primera entrega de las seis que componen esta saga. Uno cada quince días. Mi enhorabuena a la editorial por tan buena idea para sacar la pasta..

Entiendo el éxito que está tendiendo pero por desgracia no ha sido ni mi estilo, ni mi rollo.

Narrado de manera perfecta, bastante gótica y parece que se volverá intrigante con un estilo que ha sido muy adictivo para muchos incluso cuando no está pasando nada de nada.

Y ahí viene mi segundo problema y es que hubo varios momentos que me aburría ya que no pasaba mucho..

Tiene una prosa y diálogos directos, es un libro muy corto y creo que todos son iguales, pero a su vez creo que con cada libro la cosa se pondrá mejor si va al grano.

La información nos viene poco a poco dosificada a cuentagotas, entendible. Y supongo que es lo que genera y generará muchas ganas de seguir con el culebrón.

Cortos y ágiles, es lo bueno, pero no ha sido mucho mi rollo. Me ha dejado en un medio sí medio no. Mi problema no es otro que la propia historia que no parece mucho de mi estilo como para atraerme y por ello la adicción de muchos no la he sentido. No me decido a seguir pero ya veré qué hago. Hay tanto que leer.

Es muy corto y se lee bien. Pero no termina de ser lo mío.. ✍️🧐🎩
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1,336 reviews731 followers
August 11, 2024
No ha estado mal, pero me ha sabido a poco.
Habrá que seguir...
Como siembre, buena ambientación, y personajes, sobre todo los femeninos, que son las protagonistas, los mas conseguidos.
Algún toque, mas que de terror, de fantasía paranormal.
Valoración: 6/10
Sinopsis: Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y Óscar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único lente: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste.
# 21. Un libro publicado en un año que termine en 24. Reto Popsugar 2024.
# 18. Agua. Reto Portadas 2024
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346 reviews254 followers
January 3, 2018
I can forgive a book a slow plot if the characters are great. But in this book, the plot was slow, and the characters were rather dull. This feels like just a prologue to the series really, which is fine, but I felt like it should have either been about half the length, or should have had more going on in the middle. All of the hints of creepiness from the beginning were lost for most of the book. And those creepy bits were great, so I was pretty disappointed when they were gone.

I’m not sure if I’ll continue on. Part of me wants to, because I think that when things start happening that the series will be pretty good, but I’m not sure the next installment will be any better.
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389 reviews293 followers
March 8, 2024
"Aquello que esperaba a los desprevenidos nadadores en el turbio lecho del río, aquello que se arrastraba por las densas orillas en las noches oscuras, fuera lo que fuera, ya estaba allí antes de la fundación de Perdido y seguiría allí cuando Perdido dejara de existir."

Hoy les traigo el primer volumen de la esperada saga de Michael McDowell; Blackwater. Unas novelas originalmente publicadas en 1983 también en seis entregas pero publicadas mensualmente. En nuestro país la editorial Blackie Books sacará cada entrega cada quince días.
Ha sido también mi primer acercamiento a la obra del autor y he quedado maravillada con su estilo, con toda la historia y ambientación que rodea tanto al pueblo de Perdido y sus singulares habitantes como a sus ríos; BlackWater y Perdido.
Y qué decir de la cautivadora edición 😍
Es una auténtica gozada tenerlo en la mano, cabe justo en la palma con su formato de bolsillo, el tamaño de la letra es perfecto para los cegatos/as como yo 😂, tiene cantidad de minuciosos detalles en esas portadas que hacen que me pierda en ellos y no pueda dejar de admirarlos.
Además, al principio se incluye un mapa del pueblo y un árbol genealógico de las principales familias.
Una auténtica joya en miniatura, la mar de cómodos para llevar a todos lados 🖤📖

En este primer volumen encontraremos más incógnitas que respuestas, nos quedan cinco entregas más por delante así que en La Riada nos iremos situando en este pueblo perdido, nunca mejor dicho 😜, de Alabama.
Corre el año 1919, primer domingo de Pascua y el pueblo de Perdido es azotado por una gran inundación causada por el desbordamiento de sus dos ríos.
Hay que evaluar los daños que no son pocos.
En una de esas incursiones en barca para comprobar el estado del pueblo Oscar Caskey junto con Bray Sugarwhite se encuentran con una extraña sorpresa; una joven hermosa y misteriosa que no se sabe de dónde ha salido. Su nombre es Elinor Dammert y todo lo que la rodea es el gran misterio de la novela.
A partir de su llegada todo empezará a cambiar en el pueblo, muy sutilmente al principio.
La llegada de esta nueva habitante supondrá todo un acontecimiento en un pueblo en el que nunca pasa nada, o casi nada... Vamos a dejarlo ahí 🤐

Recorreremos la historia de la familia más poderosa del lugar, los Caskey, dueños de uno de los aserraderos, principal fuente de ingresos del lugar.
Con Mary-Love como la gran matriarca, el principal eje y centro de confrontación con Elinor.

No encontraremos grandes escenas de terror, al menos por ahora, solo hay un par de escenas realmente inquietantes pero que logran hacerte estremecer, y si no que se lo pregunten a los pelillos de mi nuca 😱🤣 Y algunos hechos extraños que se dejan entrever.
Todos y cada uno de los múltiples personajes están trazados a la perfección con lo que hace que muy fácilmente te sitúes en la trama.
Pero si algo tiene McDowell es una gran creatividad y una escritura muy sutil a la hora de ir tejiendo una atmósfera absorbente en lo que auguro será un gran éxito. A mí desde luego ya me ha ganado con solo leer el primer volumen.
Por algo Stephen King lo consideraba su escritor favorito y de hecho fue fuente de inspiración para sus obras.

Definitivamente, esta novela encaja a la perfección en el llamado gótico sureño. Aquí lo primordial es el drama de esa familia de terratenientes, los Caskey, dejando en un segundo plano los elementos más puramente sobrenaturales, pero estos irán cobrando cada vez más intensidad según avancemos en la historia. Todo lo que rodea a Elinor es un gran misterio y estoy deseando seguir para descubrir quién es y por qué está en ese pueblo precisamente.

Adéntrate en las negras aguas del río Blackwater o en las rojas del Perdido🏞️.
Atrévete a nadar en la confluencia de ambos y conoce lo que esconde su limo.

¿Te animas? 🔝🔝🔝🔝

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609 reviews248 followers
April 28, 2024
5/10

Siento ir contracorriente con esta novela, pero lo cierto es que es un estilo y un género que no me atraen nada, con decir que a pesar de ser una novela corta se me ha hecho muy larga, creo que ya está todo dicho. Por lo tanto, es culpa mía por no haber tenido en cuenta mis gustos, pero claro, todo el mundo hablando de ella y siendo considerada dentro del género fantástico que me apasiona, pues tenía que degustarla.

Destacaría sobre todo la ambientación, es lo que más me ha gustado y lo que más llamó mi atención mientras leía. En este aspecto no puedo poner ninguna pega, de notable alto como poco. Pero fuera de esto, la verdad es que nada más me ha gustado demasiado. Los personajes me daban todos igual, no he empatizado con ninguno, aburridos y sosos, sin nada que aportar, la narración es lenta y con momentos soporíferos y la temática fantástica, que es lo que me hubiera salvado, aparece en cuenta gotas, supongo que para enganchar al lector y que se haga preguntas, que obviamente no se resuelven en esta novela, que para algo hay muchas más.

¿Recomendable? Bueno, si te gustan las series de época con tejemanejes familiares, yo creo que la disfrutaras bastante, ya que detrás hay una gran ambientación y grandes misterios por venir, pero si lo que buscas es una novela de fantasía al uso, pues casi mejor que busques por otro lado.

No seguiré con la saga, aunque espero que a los que os haya gustado la disfrutéis.

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312 reviews186 followers
August 31, 2023


"Perdido would smell the flood. It had seeped into the boards and beams and very bricks of the houses and buildings. Now and then, it would remind Perdido of what desolation there had been, and what desolation might very well come upon the town again."

4.25 🌟's

Initial Thoughts

I'm back with some Michael McDowell, the undisputed king of southern gothic, and this is the one I've really been looking forward to. His magnum opus, his masterpiece, the piece de resistance... that's his Blackwater saga in case you didn't know.

This author made his name as a screenwriter with movies like Beetlejuice and the Nightmare Before Christmas. But before all that he produced some of the finest horror paperbacks money can buy. Including the fantastic "Elementals," which is where I started with him. After being blown away by that, I went back to the start of his bibliography and saw a steady increase in quality from his debut in 1979, with The Amulet, all the way up to Katie in 1982. He the released the Blackwater Saga, which was his final and, regarded by many, his crowning achievement in supernatural suspense fiction.

Also called the Caskey family saga, it was originally published as a six-novel serial but later collected into a single huge volume. In a similar fashion to Stephen King's The Green Mile. Good news for me and you as those originals are tricky to track down. And once I read one, I'll no doubt want to binge the lot!

The Story

The saga begins on a Easter Sunday in South Carolina and the year is 1919. A great flood strikes the small town of Perdido, nearly wiping it off the map. But when the water recedes a strange but beautiful woman is discovered, by James Caskey, stranded in the flooded Osceola hotel. That woman is Elinor Dammert and quite how she survived all this time without food and water doesn't occur to her saviour.

Elinor is surrounded by mystery and has no way of confirming her identity or history but despite this soon worms her way in with the rich Caskey family who have found fortune in the lumbar trade. James' younger brother Oscar is completely bewitched by her, as is almost everyone else. Everyone but the Caskey matriarch Mary-Love, who just doesn't buy this 'butter wouldn't melt" routine. Is her suspicion justified? Well I think we're going to find out in this excellent family drama that's tinged by the supernatural. Want to know what that supernatural is? Tough luck, my lips are sealed. Just read the damn book and find out for yourself!

"Elinor Dammert put things in place. She set things up. She picked up people and she put them down again where she wanted them as a child might arrange the figures in a wooden Noah's ark."

The Writing

So you love yourself some horror but feel let down by the lack of literary quality in the genre? Well you're in luck because McDowell's prose are a treat to read. He writes this one in third person, while allowing you into the thoughts and feelings of all his characters. But he does it with such elegance and craft that puts him up there with any author writing suspense fiction.

Looking back at his career, I was slightly let down by the overall quality in his first novel...the Amulet. It certainly didn't compare to the heights he hit in his barnstorming Elementals. But in The Flood, he reaches and maybe surpasses the heights that I've come to expect. It's as sleek as a water moccasin and as sharp as a gator's teeth. The way he paints that Carolina landscape is so evocative you just need to experience it yourself.

The Characters

Despite being billed as a supernatural horror, The Flood read more like a soap opera that revolved around it's characters. And they are a fantastic bunch. All are engaging and beautifully drawn with enough individuality to keep them distinct.



To be honest, going by this first book alone, you could completely remove the supernatural elements and I'd still be thoroughly entertained. Particularly by the female powerhouse that is Mary Love, possibly the most conniving mother in history. I can definitely see a titanic clash between her and Elinor on the not too distant horizon.

Final Thoughts

Going by this first book I'm thoroughly intrigued and can't wait to get stuck into the next installment...The Levee. There is definitely horror elements in this story, but they take a back seat to the southern family drama, which is without doubt McDowell's speciality. He has such an insight into the conflict that takes place within families and presents it fantastically. Something you just don't get in the majority of horror fiction.

But never fear, if it's horror your after there is definitely something lurking beneath that rippling surface that is going to appear at some point. Like the Creature from the Black Lagoon. And I can't wait to find out which way this one is going to go. Join me soon for the next installment.

Thanks for reading and...cheers!
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3,258 reviews344 followers
March 8, 2015
Michael Mcdowell (June 1, 1950 – December 27, 1999) was a talented writer who is perhaps best known for his work on the screenplay for the Tim Burton film "Beetlejuice".

His final, unfinished novel "Candles Burning" was completed by novelist Tabitha King and published in 2006.

McDowell wrote fiction at night while supporting himself through teaching and secretarial work. Six early novels with titles like "Venus Restored" and "Blood and Glitter" went unpublished and are still unpublished.

His publishing debut came in 1979 with the publication of "The Amulet", which he had begun writing as a screenplay. From there to around 1987, McDowell would publish over 30 novels, 16 of them under his own name. Some were purely contractual, including a series of light "Nick and Nora" type mysteries written for Ballantine Books called "Jack and Susan", and a novelization of the movie "Clue".

He wrote two novels as Axel Young, four novels as Nathan Aldyne, three novels as Preston Macadam, and one more under the name of Mike McCray as well as seventeen books under his own name. In the forward of the first volume in this book Poppy Z. Bright states there is still one more pseudo name that has not been revealed as of yet, and also states that Mcdowell wrote over 40 books.

“I do feel that the universe is a joke,” McDowell said. “And that we are the butt of that joke. And horror is one of the best ways of saying that, of saying that there are things out there and forces and vibrations that are simply malevolent.”

This is Southern Gothic smoothly written with style and we follow the rise and deterioration of family and fortune.

This set (originally published in 1983) consists of the six books in the series.

Book 1: The Flood
Book 2: The Levee
Book 3: The House
Book 4: The War
Book 5: The Torture
Book 6: The Rain

All beautifully illustrated and in a slipcase, this signed and numbered is set 199 of 250.
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359 reviews217 followers
July 22, 2024
[ESP/ENG]

Tras haber leído Los elementales del mismo autor, y con el enorme bombo que está teniendo esta saga con su reciente publicación en España, he tenido que darle una oportunidad. Y me alegro mucho de ello, ya que ha sido una gran lectura. Es cierto que al ser solo la primera parte de un total de seis no puedo valorar en conjunto, pero como historia introductoria ha sido redonda.

Esta es la historia del pueblo de Perdido, en Alabama, un lugar que vive de la industria de la madera, por el que cruzan dos ríos. El inicio de todo se da cuando ha habido una inundación y desborde de esos ríos que han dejado el pueblo anegado, y entre la destrucción encuentran a una joven que no parece encajar con la situación. El misterio está servido.

Me ha gustado mucho la ambientación, enseguida te sientes como si fueses parte de ese pueblo. Los primeros pasajes con la inundación han sido unos momentos muy logrados por parte del autor. En cuanto a los personajes, se presentan aquí bastante, lógico, pero cada uno tiene su personalidad, son fáciles de distinguir con sus acciones y palabras. Aunque no todos, más bien pocos, te hacen empatizar con ellos.

En relación a esos personajes, hay situaciones que me han dado muy mala leche, como por ejemplo o cuando al final , pero entiendo que eso es algo hecho a propósito. Aunque también hay momentos de dejarte con la boca abierta, principalmente me refiero a las escenas

Aquí mi valoración de la saga, y un resumen general en la sexta y última parte:

1. La riada ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. El dique ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. La casa ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. La guerra ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. La fortuna ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Lluvia ⭐⭐⭐⭐

PD: esto se escribió y publicó para ser leído en entregas periódicas. No lo pienso hacer, de hecho ya he empezado el 2 y va a caer todo del tirón.


💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧


After having read The Elementals by the same author, and with the huge hype that this saga is having with its recent publication in Spain, I had to give it a chance. And I am very glad about it, since it has been a great read. That being said, it's only the first part of a total of six, and I cannot evaluate it as a whole, but as an introductory story it has been perfect.

This is the story of the town of Perdido, Alabama, a place that lives off the timber industry, through which two rivers cross. The beginning of everything occurs when there has been a flood and overflow of those rivers that have left the town flooded, and among the destruction they find a young woman who does not seem to fit in with the situation. The mystery is served.

I really liked the setting, you immediately feel as if you were part of that town. The first passages with the flood have been some very well-done moments by the author. As for the characters, they are presented here quite a bit, logically, but each one has their own personality, they are easy to distinguish with their actions and words. Although not all of them, rather few, make you empathize with them.

In relation to those characters, there are situations that have really made me angry, such as or when at the end , but I understand that that is something done on purpose. Although there are also moments that will leave you speechless, I'm mainly referring to the scenes

Here is my assessment of the saga, and a general summary will be in the sixth and final part:

1. The flood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. The levee ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The house ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The War ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. The Fortune ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Rain ⭐⭐⭐⭐

PS: This was written and published to be read in periodic installments. I don't plan on doing that, in fact I've already started the 2nd and it's all going down at once.
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397 reviews48 followers
May 19, 2024
Hemos comenzado la lectura de esta saga "matriarcal" (palabra, aparentemente, de inclusión formal y obligatoria en todas las reseñas de este libro) y lo primero que descubrí es que tengo problemas para escribir "matriarcal" (Tres intentos. Lo tuve que decir en voz alta) Lo segundo (no voy a decir Francia, no voy a decir Francia) es que el libro tiene un estilo siniestro y campechano al mismo tiempo que es un encanto. La anticipación del peligro y lo sobrenatural revoloteando la historia es aún mejor que el desenlace en sí mismo. Tercero, nos compenetramos fácilmente con la psicología de casi todos los personajes, entendemos la dinámica de sus vínculos, comprendemos por qué razonan cómo lo hacen. Casi todos, porque la excepción es el personaje que más nos inquieta. Este personaje es hermético. Bien jugado, Sr McDowell, donde quiera que esté.
En fin, la saga matriarcrals merece ser continuada...
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322 reviews160 followers
March 22, 2024
Perdido, Alabama. 1919. El río se desborda y lo inunda por completo. La totalidad del pueblo se ha refugiado en zonas altas para protegerse. Pero una mujer recién llegada aparece en el hotel, milagrosamente sana y salva tras días de inundación. Y aquí empieza un auténtico culebrón con todos los ingredientes expuestos a mis ojos:

Los Caskey, un clan que domina el pueblo. La matriarca, que domina a su vez a toda su familia. Y una joven misteriosa que se infiltra en la familia y los quiere dominar a todos. Todo esto con el río como gran nexo común y cuyas aguas guardan mucha relación con la joven recién llegada.

Adictivo, ritmo ágil, elementos fantásticos, algo de terror. Me encanta, estoy muy intrigada. Ya leyendo el segundo libro, El Dique.
543 reviews
August 2, 2007
Michael McDowell died of AIDS in 1999. He was taken from the publishing world way too soon.

I'm a southerner and a big fan of southern gothic literature. McDowell wrote a series called Blackwater that tells the story of a southern family's rise and fall, all due to a stranger who showed up in town one day.

I'm including an article I wrote for my library's blog about this wonderful author. Please search down his books and read them. You won't be disappointed.

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The recent 9th annual Alabama Bound at the Central library brought to mind my all-time favorite Alabama author, Michael McDowell. Never heard of him? It could be the fact that not every great writer makes the New York Times bestseller’s list. Well, to be honest, most of our great writers don’t. McDowell is one of those writers. Unfortunately, he died too soon and too underrated.

McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama. He died in 1999 of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts. In between he left his mark on different fiction genres and even rubbed elbows with Hollywood’s Tim Burton through their collaborations on Beetlejuice (1987) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

My first introduction to McDowell happened 25 years ago in my favorite used bookstore on Rocky Ridge Road. Browsing the horror section I came across a series set in Alabama. Blackwater (1983) is a serial of six books that tells the story of the Caskey family’s rise to power in the small mill town of Perdido, Alabama. The twist in the story is that the matriarch is something other than human; something that crawled from the red mud of the Perdido riverbank and set her ambitious sights on a man and a town.

The Amulet (1979), Cold Moon Over Babylon (1980) and The Elementals (1981) are also set in Alabama and contain similar supernatural themes of revenge and redemption. McDowell is an expert at bringing to life the mannerisms and diction of his southern characters, from the sweet tea they guzzle in the summer to their endearing use of “gone” for “going.” It's not for nothing that McDowell's southern gothics are matriach-heavy; he really had an understanding of just who heads up families here in the south.

McDowell takes a wide turn in his two turn of the centry novels set in New York, Katie (1982) and Gilded Needles (1980). Katie tells the story of a cunning woman, her dull, psychic stepdaughter and their desperate attempts to hang on to a carpetbag full of blood money. Don’t let the book cover showing a silhouette of a girl holding an ax dripping with blood and the line “Katie kills for kicks and cash” scare you away. This is not a pulp fiction throwaway but a smart, tense story that will keep you white knuckled until the last word. Gilded Needles chronicles the clashes between a mother and her family of thieves and a powerful, wealthy New York judge.

Stephen King didn't call McDowell one of the "finest writers of paperback originals in America today” for nothing. Tabitha King was asked to complete McDowell's unfinished novel Candles Burning, which was published last year to good reviews.

Many of McDowell’s books are out of print and hard to find. So if you find yourself in some dusty used bookstore and happen to spot one, grab it for posterity.
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2,065 reviews109 followers
August 12, 2023
The late Michael McDowell’s horror classic “Blackwater” (originally published in 1983 as six separate novels) opens with an epigraph about the maenad, which, in Greek mythology, referred to a female follower of Dionysus and literally translates as “the demented”. The female of the species, it is implied, is an embodiment of both love and cruelty, this contradiction being the ultimate downfall of women in classic literature.

Women are at the crux of McDowell’s Southern Gothic horror story. They are the heart of the family structure, and they are the force for change. They are also at war---with men, sometimes, but mainly with each other. It is this dynamic, fueled by the feminine mystique, that drives the novel. It is bolstered by the presence of a cosmic horror with shades of Lovecraft. The result is magically creepy and wonderful.

Book One, “The Flood”, of the six-book Blackwater series introduces the readers to Elinor Dammert, a beautiful redhead who literally pops into existence one day in the most inexplicable way.

The book opens after the Perdido River has flooded the banks and inundated the city of Perdido, Alabama in 1919. The entire town is underwater, and Oscar Caskey and his servant, Bray, are in a boat searching for survivors. They find Elinor in a room of the Osceola Hotel. She claims to have been there for four days, without food or clean water. When Bray enters the room, he discovers that the bed is soaking wet. Where did she sleep? How did she survive four days without food or water?

Apparently, Bray is the only one who asks these questions, as Elinor’s story seems perfectly legitimate to everyone else. She is quickly accepted as the town’s new fourth-grade teacher, and she and Oscar almost immediately fall in love and get married.

Unfortunately, Elinor’s existence is not welcome by everyone. Mary-Love Caskey, the mother of Oscar and the family matriarch, is not enamored. Her feelings of ill will toward Elinor are only partly explained by her irrational motherly fear of Elinor taking her son away.

She concocts a horrible plan that will, if not lead to the destruction of Elinor, then ensure that her new daughter-in-law will be beholden to her forever. Thus, the battle between the two most powerful women in Perdido begins.

“The Flood” is a fantastic family drama with the perfect blend of dark humor and supernatural terror. It grabs one from the start and doesn’t let up. McDowell originally published this as a six-part series, one published every month in early 1983, and I can only imagine that they were instant best-sellers.

Valancourt Books, in 2017, re-published the entire series as one novel.
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204 reviews200 followers
February 11, 2024
Primera entrega de la saga Blackwater.
Año 1919. En la sinopsis se dice:
"Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y Óscar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único objetivo: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste."
Mary-Love no puede soportar que su cuñado James Caskey haya acogido en su casa a la extraña Elinor. Esa mujer no es de fiar. ¿Cómo es posible que los jardines de los Caskey no se recuperen de la devastación del lodo del río y no nazca una brizna de hierba? Los jardines de los otros terratenientes se han recuperado, están frondosos, con sus flores y césped. Elinor tiene algo que ver con esto. ¡! ??.
Elinor es una mujer joven, guapa, culta, prudente, buen ama de casa, maestra de 4° curso en la escuela del pueblo y la pequeña Grace, la hija de James, la adora. En general, la gente del pueblo ha llegado a quererla. Tambien Óscar y Sister, los hijos de la viuda Mary-Love.
Sin embargo, el autor crea un halo de misterio entorno a esta mujer. Y, muy sutilmente, nos induce a imaginar cosas horribles de ella. El caso es que Elinor no ha hecho nada malo. Esta dualidad crea mucha intriga y necesidad de seguir leyendo.
No cuento más para no destripar la historia.
Me ha gustado mucho esta primera parte. Me quedo a medias si no continuo.Y como todavía no han sacado la siguiente en español, me lanzo a leer la saga en inglés, a ver qué me encuentro.
Se dice que la novela es "terror gótico sureño".Yo no veo terror, sino algo inquietante que provoca querer saber más. Algo raro entre todo lo cotidiano del pueblo y de la familia Caskey.
Aunque solo sea esto el inicio de la saga, no puedo poner menos de 5 estrellas: una recreación fantástica de la época, esa inundación del pueblo, los personajes, la rutina diaria, escenas inquietantes, etc.
Excelente 👌 👌
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112 reviews1,276 followers
March 6, 2024
Bueno, digamos que le he dejado arrastrar por a corriente de Blackwater, nunca mejor dicho!!

La riada es la primera parte de la saga Blackwater de Michael McDowelll publicada por primera vez en español por Blackie Books

En ella se nos presenta como los habitantes de Perdido tienen que hacer frente a la riada que ha inundado el pueblo mientras seguimos a una desconocida pelirroja llamada Elinor que pone patas arriba la rutina de los Caskey, una de las familias más poderosas de Perdido.

Es una primera parte muy introductoria que sirve para presentarnos a los personajes a la perfección y para dejarnos clara cuál es la dinámica familiar de los Caskey.

Tiene una buena dosis de salseo que nos tiene enganchados a la historia y ya empieza a plantar las semillas para ese componente sobrenatural que creo que va a terminar siendo muy importante para la historia.

Pero hay algo muy importante a tener en cuenta cuando nos enfrentamos a esta saga y es que no es una saga en sí, sino una novela por fascículos. Esto quiere decir que este primer libro, e imagino que pasará lo mismo con los siguientes, no tiene un final ni una conclusión propiamente dichas, sino que termina dejándonos a medias. Menos mal que ya tengo el segundo en mi poder y puedo seguir leyendo!!

De momento Elinor es mi personajes favorito y, a la vez es de la que menos sabemos! Me muero por descubrir más de ella en los siguientes tomos!
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283 reviews68 followers
March 24, 2023
Un primo volume convincente e intrigante, che lascia al lettore la voglia di continuare la saga.
La storia è ambientata nel 1919 a Perdido, in Alabama. In questa cittadina sono presenti due fiumi, il Perdido e il Blackwater. In seguito alla loro esondazione, tutta Perdido viene allagata e gli abitanti sono costretti a rifugiarsi nel suo punto più alto: la Chiesa della Grazia di Sion. Appena il livello dell'acqua si abbassa, è il momento di recuperare qualcosa dalle proprie case: è qui che comincia la storia, con uno dei protagonisti, Oscar Caskey, accompagnato dal suo domestico, Bray, intenti a solcare le acque su una barca. Durante questa visita incontrano la misteriosa Elinor Dammert e da questo momento in poi nulla sarà come prima per i componenti della famiglia Caskey.
Si tratta di una saga familiare a tinte gotiche: l'atmosfera percepibile è di attesa per i prossimi volumi. Non succede granché, tuttavia vengono presentati i personaggi della famiglia e viene tratteggiata una trama fantasy a tinte horror. Il ritmo è incalzante e, complice la brevità, lo si divora veramente in poco tempo. Si ha voglia di conoscere sempre di più riguardo al mistero di Elinor e alle conseguenze del suo arrivo nella comunità. Non vedo l'ora di proseguire con i prossimi volumi!
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Author 49 books1,903 followers
February 18, 2020
When I used to think of amazing Southern Gothic writers, some names that always popped into my head were Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Harry Crews, and Erskine Caldwell.

After reading THE ELEMENTALS and THE FLOOD (BLACKWATER #1), I now think of Michael McDowell too. That I group him with the above writers should tell you everything about how much I love his work and respect him as a storyteller.

So...yeah. Five stars. McDowell is incredible.
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996 reviews306 followers
July 23, 2023
Primo volume della saga di Blackwater.
1919, Alabama.
Perdido è una cittadina nata nella confluenza tra due corsi d'acqua: il Blackwater e il Perdido. Un’alluvione cancella i letti originari dei due fiumi sconvolgendo anche la vita dei cittadini soprattutto per la comparsa di uno strano personaggio: Elinor Dammert.
Da dove arriva questa appariscente ragazza dai capelli rosso fiamma?
Un’aura di mistero ed alcuni oscuri eventi sono l’unica traccia di questo breve e scorrevole romanzo. Spiazzante dal punto di visto delle aspettative fantasy ma comunque di piacevole lettura.
La famiglia Caskey, al centro del racconto, ci presenta una bella carrellata di personaggi femminili molto determinati mentre gli uomini non fanno una gran bella figura.

Quattro stelle per la lettura soddisfacente anche se, per me, non abbastanza da proseguire la saga.
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917 reviews476 followers
July 3, 2024
3.5
“No hay mucho que hacer en medio de una ríada”

Bueno, he caído.

No pensaba que iba a leer esta novela, pero ocurrió que surgió un club de lectura con mis primas y adivinen que libro propuso una de ellas para el mes de junio.

No voy a negar que andaba con escepticismo porque no es un libro que me llamase de primeras y tampoco entra en los géneros que me gustan leer. Sin embargo, las primeras páginas me cautivaron, sobre todo por la prosa del autor, y es aquí donde digo que sido una prejuiciosa y un poco hipócrita.

Me ha gustado, sí pero tampoco me ha fascinado de tal manera que tenga que seguir corriendo a la segunda entrega. Voy a acabar leyéndola por supuesto, pero con calma.

“Porque oí que aquí había algo para mí.”
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542 reviews1,609 followers
February 27, 2024
Algo se esconde en las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater. Perdido, un pequeño pueblo, al sur de Alabama, queda inundado por esas aguas negras, oscuras.

Los daños causados por la riada son muchos, el pueblo deberá empezar prácticamente desde cero pero la aparición de una hermosa joven en medio de este suceso, cambia la vida de los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes. La joven hará lo que sea para acercarse a los Caskey.

Tengo que confesar que al principio me llamó la atención la historia por muchas reseñas positivas que había estado leyendo. Al empezar el libro me imaginaba un libro lleno de escenas paranormales, pero a medida que iba avanzando estas eran muy escasas. Así que más bien se convirtió en una novela sobre una riada, en la que aparece una desconocida y como va acomodando su vida en el pueblo, así como la vida de otros personajes después de la riada, en definitiva un drama familar.

Sinceramente, no lo abandoné porque es un libro corto y esperaba impaciente escenas paranormales, aunque estas que nunca llegaron. De hecho, solamente ha habido unas dos escenas en todo el libro que me hayan llamado realmente la atención.
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563 reviews222 followers
July 29, 2022
J'ai mis de côté mon snobisme de la VO pour m'offrir la (si belle) édition Monsieur Toussaint Louverture - alors qu'est-ce que ça donne ?

Eh bien ma foi, ça se lit vite, très vite, c'est assez bien écrit/traduit avec des descriptions qui immergent bien dans l'atmosphère un peu étrange de Perdido... J'ai trouvé l'intrigue un peu lente à se mettre en place, et suis restée un poil sur ma faim avec le côté fantastique (jusqu'à la fin où ça s'intensifie un tout petit peu) mais ça m'a donné envie de découvrir la suite !

Finalement, ce premier opus me semble surtout mettre tout en place - lieux, personnages, intrigue, comme une mise en bouche pour le reste de la saga. Espérons que la suite soit aussi (si ce n'est plus) intrigante et intéressante...

(Et pourquoi pas à relire en VO un jour, je suis sûre que c'est assez easy à lire...)
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450 reviews989 followers
March 27, 2024
Todo el mundo que conozco está leyendo esta saga y con razón. Es ascosamente adictiva. Mezcla de saga familiar con toques sobrenaturales y de terror (pero no de verdad, no da miedo), es gótico sureño. Si el gótico sureño fuera una serie de los 80 como "Dinastia" o "Falcon Crest".

Engancha como la heroína esto.
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260 reviews6,847 followers
May 29, 2024
un inicio de saga increíble para una saga maravillosa
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188 reviews1,147 followers
October 3, 2024
me gustó pero pensé que iba a ser muchísimo más atrapante y turbio
igualmente estaré leyendo el segundo como buena chusma que soy y porque encima el final me dejó con el culo lleno de preguntas
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