Review of The Horned Ones: Cornucopia
Christine Morgan
Belfire Press
5 stars
When I began this riveting book, I thought I was reading an
adventure/thriller, a story of courage (and the opposite, fearful selfishness)
in the face of a natural disaster—an underground cave system partially
collapsing, trapping three full tours of curious tourists and their guides.
Well, I did get all that, and in the meantime watched the human condition
unfold, as certainly times this troubling bring out the true character of any
individual, and the characters in “The Horned Ones: Cornucopia” certainly run
the continuum from almost all good to almost all evil, including “bad guys” who
actually demonstrate altruism, and other bad guys the reader will hope never to
encounter.
But this novel is not just a thriller—this novel is also
scientifically bent, exploratory, and contains a great deal of horror, the kind
of horror that made my hair stand on end and chills run tiny spider legs along
my spine (perhaps, considering the story’s locale, tiny albino cave eyeless
cave spiders). The horror that rules the last portion of the book is virtually
unforgettable—and left this reviewer hoping for a sequel.
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