Rounded up from 3.5 stars but overall had the gore I was hoping for, especially after The Deep being a slight let down in that aspect, enjoyed the different layers of time and who doesn’t love a cult. Audible.

It's like 3-4 mediocre ideas blended into one boring mess.

4 1/2...reminded me of King's "It" in a lot of ways...oscillated between wanting to give this 4 and 5 stars.

Unnerving Magazine Review
In a welcome stylistic return to form, Nick Cutter (Craig Davidson) cooks up a tale that feels something like if Sergio Leone’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly butted up against Stephen King’s It. 
Three contract Wild West-ish killers/collectors come together with bullets flying, but find themselves grouped for survival and in such a way that offers a short-lived buddy comedy vibe. The threesome is morally ambiguous, leaning into criminally apathetic, but only until the author needs it to be otherwise. These aren’t easy characters to like, despite their underlying hearts of pyrite. Courageous, hard headed
and purchased on the cheap, and for any old task, keeps the instilled compassion low.
Dusty trails, big rocks and thick woods, the trio, employed by a woman to seek out her nephew. While trudging through the wilds, the floor falls out and they’re quickly, and easily, disarmed and hanging with the parishioners of Little Heaven.
Religious nuttiness leads the parishioners of Little Heaven to mental and physical decay as they are in range of something otherworldly. A savior to this story. Creepy crawlies parade the landscape and bodies, claiming unrelenting ownership of all within reach. There’s a vampyric vibe to the gathering of innocents for the slaughter. There’s that hard-edged 70s sense about the monsters of Little Heaven that feel more campfire fable than horror-flick shocker. Rather than pulling from thin air, the author pulled from the countryside and pounded together attributes. So many traits and their descriptions gathered images and sensations, readily blooming on the mind’s eye. The New Mexico countryside offered a rich stock list for the picking. Keeping the link between surreal and reality allowed the easy leaps of imagination to play forward without any strain on the eyes or the head.
Though this is the longest Cutter book thus far, but carries no more meat than any others. The extra feels mostly padding, perhaps this is a direct result of giving his characters histories. Little Heaven is a dark horror that wanes in the middle, but makes a real comeback when the monsters reveal their natures, spindly-legged and baby-faced alike. Dark, grim and suspenseful once rolling, though perhaps too little too late.

DNF at 37%. I listened to over 5 hours of audio and just could not get into this story. It felt completely disjointed.

Wow! This was fantastic...bloody, but fantastic.

This novel blew me away. 4.5/5 Stars!! Strongly recommend.

My first time reading a horror novel kicked down my expectations and I was only in the middle of the first chapter. Plot was amazing. Transitioning was great. Characters were amazing. Dialogue/Tone was amazing. Pacing was good. I want to rate this five stars so much, but one thing felt like a needle pricking all the goodness this book contained.

Too much detail went into explaining things. At first, it was something I found to my liking. Give me all the details; I'll soak it up. Near the end, I got tired of it. At that point, I had it rated at 4 stars flat. Closer to the end, it picked up incredibly and the details came in handy to depict the scenes and emotions of the characters. That made the end as good as it was in my opinion. Had to give it that extra nudge in rating just for that.

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