It was a pretty entertaining read, but Borton definitely got better as his novels progressed.My third book by Douglas Borton, Dreamhouse has a pretty good idea for a plot. A serial killer arrives in town at the same time as the dogs, which spiced up the mix nicely. The plot had a decent level of complexity too, which also added to the strength of the story. Still a far cry from amazing, but even in this debut Borton had good characterization. The crime fiction he's writing now just isn't calling to me. But since I'd read all of his other horror I thought I'd give it another chance. When I read the description of this book I thought 'Great, Cujo II.' *yawn* And with a title like Manstopper, coupled with the fact that this was Borton's first novel, I wasn't expecting much. He felt the sizzle of electric tension in his haunches, the tingle of anticipation in his claws, and the sharpness of his teeth against his drooling tongue.

Then, very slowly, Wylie Gaines reached out to the dog with one pudgy, helpless hand.īigfoot opened his mouth. She guessed that this dog wanted to play too. He would bark and growl and show his fangs, and then he would chase her and she would chase him, and they would end up together, squirming madly and delightedly in mutual surrender. That was how Buster had always wanted to play. She thought the dog was funny, to growl like that. 50 books abercrombie adams amen anderson asimov asprin aylett b5 barker bloom borton bourdain bradbury brooks brown buck butcher caldwell campbell card carr caves chafe child clarke coelho collins concerts connolly coupland danielewski dick discdeath disch discrince discwatch discwitch discwizard diving dorsey duncan eddings effinger ellis ender feist fitzhugh free will fuller gaiman games gerrold ghiglieri & myers gibson goodkind grant grant naylor harris harrison hawaii heinlein heller herbert heyerdahl hiaasen hill holt huxley john katzenbach kelby king kirino koontz kzin larson laumer le guin lebbon lehane lewis lindsey lindy moore long lovecraftian mack masters of horror matheson mccammon mcmurray me mirror moorcock moore music music theory myers myth niffenegger niven olson palahniuk philosophy picoult poe pratchett prehistoric preston pronouns rand reichert reilly resolution retief rollins rowling sachs sanderson schechter sedaris shiva shorts smoking snicket squyres stephenson takami thailand thomason thompson tinsman tolkein van belkom voltaire vonnegut weis & hickman willis winchester wurts zelazny zen.

Dreamhouse by Douglas Borton