Review of Lazarus Island by Lee Moan
5 stars
A gory, graphic, but very philosophically and metaphysically
deep exploration of life, death, and what comes after, sometimes very
unexpectedly. The story is tautly plotted, and suspension of disbelief seems to
come naturally—I had no trouble accepting the events that ushered the story
along. This is my second exposure to the work of author Lee Moan (the first was
the marital-duet of horror, “Forever”) and I am a convert to his way of
thinking.
The tiny island of Scalasay in the Scottish Hebrides is
peaceful, isolated, a community at rest with itself—no growing pains, and no
fear or rejection of outsiders either, as in some isolated communities. That is
Scalasay’s surface: yet underneath seethe rage, grief, terror. Ten years ago
one of the islanders committed serial rapes, the final one ending in murder.
Now his widowed mother is dying on the island, and the British Prison Service
has given him a day leave to come home—home where the islanders don’t want him.
When matters are taken into vigilante hands, the consequences will be beyond
what anyone could have expected—horrifying, brutal, damaging, and permanent.
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