The White Road
A cutting edge thriller about one man s quest to discover horror lurking at the top of the world.Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, Journey to the Dark Side , ex adrenalin junkie and slacker Simon Newman hires someone to guide him through the notorious Cwm Pot caves, so that he can film the journey and put it on the internet With a tragic history, Cwm Pot has been off limits for decades, and unfortunately for Simon, the guide he s hired is as unpredictable and dangerous as the watery caverns that lurk beneath the earth After a brutal struggle for survival, Simon barely escapes with his life, but predictably, the gruesome footage he managed to collect down in the earth s bowels goes viral Ignoring the warning signs of mental trauma, and eager to capitalize on his new internet fame, Simon latches onto another escapade that has that magic click bait mix of danger and death a trip to Everest But up above 8000 feet, in the infamous Death Zone, he ll need than his dubious morals and wits to guide him, especially when he uncovers the truth behind a decade old tragedy a truth that means he might not be coming back alive A truth that will change him and anyone who views the footage he captures forever. Read The White Road – kino-fada.fr 3.5 STARS Thank you to Shotsmag for my paper copy for which I have given an honest review Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside youGliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hoodedI do not know whether a man or a woman But who is that on the other side of you T.S Eliot, The Waste Land and Other PoemsSimon Newman is described as an adrenalin junkie though in realit 3.5 STARS Thank you to Shotsmag for my paper copy for which I have given an honest review Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside youGliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hoodedI do not know whether a man or a woman But who is that on the other side of you T.S Eliot, The Waste Land and Other PoemsSimon Newman is described as an adrenalin junkie though in reality he s a bit of a slacker, a drifter His friend and colleague Thierry with whom he runs the creepy website Journey To The Dark Side persuades him to take on risky pursuits in their desire for fame and fortune.The story begins in the underground Cwm Pot cave system in the heart of Wales Simon has enlisted the help of experienced caver Ed a somew...3.5 stars Who is the third who walks always beside youIf you ve read Sarah Lotz, you know that her books sometimes get a little off kilter in the best of ways This one goes a bit in the direction of, I guess the best way to describe it would be ghost story It has an eerie horror feel where you ll end up thinking is creeping up behind you Plus Lotz s usual atmospheric feel is present When Simon explores the caves, I felt like I was venturing into the narrow caves with the cold rising wate 3.5 stars Who is the third who walks always beside youIf you ve read Sarah Lotz, you know that her books sometimes get a little off kilter in the best of ways This one goes a bit in the direction of, I guess the best way to describe it would be ghost story It has an eerie horror feel where you ll end up thinking is creeping up behind you Plus Lotz s usual atmospheric feel is present When Simon explores the caves, I felt like I was venturing into the narrow caves with the cold rising water I really felt like I was there And when we re going up Mount Everest, I felt the cold air, the high altitude, the struggle to breathe There is something so vivid ...I just love Sarah Lotz I ve loved them all even the often maligned Day Four.I loved this whilst being inordinately disturbed by it you know those times where you read something or watch something and it plays on your mind for days even weeks afterwards, leaving you feeling slightly perturbed for no reason you can put your finger on I m a fan of books that do that means they really have gotten under your skin Who is the third who walks always beside you Yes That.So with The White Road I just love Sarah Lotz I ve loved them all even the often maligned Day Four.I loved this whilst being inordinately disturbed by it you know those times where you read something or watch something and it plays on your mind for days even weeks afterwards, leaving you feeling slightly perturbed for no reason you can put your finger on I m a fan of books that do that means they really have gotten under your skin Who is the third who walks always beside you Yes That.So with The White Road then, Sarah Lotz gives us a kind of a ghost story, with an edge of horror and a side of creep...This wasn t terrible, but certain parts were fucking annoying For one, the entire cast is garbage All throwaways Nobody you haven t read about a million times In fact, these people are so generic the main character, Simon or Si , thinks of them as Depressed Harry Potter and Hannibal Lecter, or other famous people The cast Nothing to see here.The plot is all over ...4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum ve always held a bit of a fascination for mountaineering stories, which is really ironic considering my deathly fear of heights Certainly I ve never harbored any desires to scale anythingextreme than a steep hill, which is why when I first picked up Sarah Lotz s latest novel about death and danger on Everest, I thought there would be little chance of her ruining mountain climbing for me the way she put me off fr 4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum ve always held a bit of a fascination for mountaineering stories, which is really ironic considering my deathly fear of heights Certainly I ve never harbored any desires to scale anythingextreme than a steep hill, which is why when I first picked up Sarah Lotz s latest novel about death and danger on Everest, I thought there would be little chance of her ruining mountain climbing for me the way she put me off from cruising for a whole year after I read her shipbound horror thriller Day Four And yet, books like The White Road still have this way of sending chills down my spine, even when I m reading them from the warm, cozy comfort of my living room couch.Our story begins in the winter of 2006, and protagonist Simon Newman and his roommate Thierry are a couple of slackers whose ambitions amount to nothingthan throwaway barista gigs at the local coffee shop and running their clickbait website on the side At this point, YouTube stars and listicles ar...Simon Newman is described as an adrenaline junkie in the blurb, but really he sof a drifter who lets himself be persuaded into risky stunts by his best mate Thierry The two of them run a website, Journey to the Dark Side , a pre clickbait era geek forum which has attained moderate popularity due to Simon and Thierry s penchant for adding their own commentary to creepy video footage Due to being the fitter of the two and possessing some climbing experience, Simon tends to be the gui Simon Newman is described as an adrenaline junkie in the blurb, but really he sof a drifter who lets himself be persuaded into risky stunts by his best mate Thierry The two of them run a website, Journey to...Review from Tenacious Reader White Road will creep under your skin, fill your mind with all the ghastly things and make you leery of participating in activities like, oh, let s say caving or mountain climbing I was totally going to go climb Everest next year, really Never mind that I have a bum knee, a bum ankle, and maybe I m scared of heights and also am a wimp, maybe I could have considered it anyway But nope Not now None of myrational r Review from Tenacious Reader White Road will creep under your skin, fill your mind with all the ghastly things and make you leery of participating in activities like, oh, let s say caving or mountain climbing I was totally going to go climb Everest next year, really Never mind that I have a bum knee, a bum ankle, and maybe I m scared of heights and also am a wimp, maybe I could have considered it anyway But nope Not now None of myrational reasons for never climbing Everest are nearly as convincing as reading this book My knee may hurt, but it doesn t haunt me night and day and give me the creeps Maybe this is fiction, maybe there really aren t haunted caves or mountains, either way, I am very content staying planted on the ground not beneath or above letting other people figure that out I will bask in the experience vividly given to me via Lotz s book Kind of like how I felt about cruises after reading Day Four.Lotz has cemented herself as one of my favorite horr...This is the first book I ve read by Sarah Lotz, plus it s the first I ve read to do with natural, mountainess horror and I have to say I really enjoyed it It instantly pulls you into the story, and the writing and setting instantly creates such an atmospheric, creepy and chilling feeling.You do have to suspend belief for this novel A man going down to do some caving is plausible, but the idea that Simon could climb Mount Everest after no professional training is just not believable This didn This is the first book I ve read by Sarah Lotz, plus it s the first I ve read to do with natural, mountainess horror and I have to say I really enjoyed it It instantly pulls you into the story, and the writing and setting instantly creates such an atmospheric, creepy and chilling feeling.You do have to suspend belief for this novel A man going down to do some caving is plausible, but the idea that Simon could climb Mount Everest after no professional training is just not believable This didn t bother me an awful lot as I was so involved with the characters stories and encaptured by the fear of the situations, but I know it can be an issue for some people.I m stunned at how claustrophobic and breathless this book made me feel When we re down in the caves with Simon, straight off, I found myself squirming and panicking as we made our way deeper into the abyss Then those feelings were brought back to me again as we were scaling Everest and the air was g...Chilly, frightening, excellent.A couple of years ago I read The Three by Sarah Lotz In all honesty, I was extremely disappointed by the book I had wanted a serious horror read, only to be given well, a less than pleasing read Due to that, I held off on reading anyof her books Then I saw a Goodreads giveaway for The White Road I had an extremely lengthy mental debate before deciding to enter I decided I would give her another chance, the typical chance to redeem herself If nothing else, I wouldn t be disappointed A couple of years ago I read The Three by Sarah Lotz In all honesty, I was extremely disappointed by the book I had wanted a serious horror read, only to be given well, a less than pleasing read Due to that, I held off on reading anyof her books Then I saw a Goodreads giveaway for The White Road I had an extremely lengthy mental debate before deciding to enter I decided I would give her another chance, the typical chance to redeem herself If nothing else, I wouldn t be disappointed when I failed to win the book As with every book you re not crazy excited about winning, those ones where you think I will be content either way , I won this one It took me a while from the time of receiving the book to a...
- 21 November 2017 Sarah Lotz
- Hardcover
- 272 pages
- 0316396605
- Sarah Lotz
- The White Road