Fever House

A Novel

De: Keith Rosson

Narrado por: Xe Sands

Duración: 13 h y 45 m

Resumen del Editor

“Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever House now.”—STEPHEN KING

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .

But it’s all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband—suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead—secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.

Can you resist the hand? Find an excerpt from the next Fever House novel, The Devil by Name, at the end of the book.

©2023 Keith Rosson (P)2023 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Fever House subverts the ordinary devices of occult-themed fantasy and keeps readers in suspense until the last page—and primed for the next book.”—The Wall Street Journal

“[A] whirlwind mystery . . . that hurls [Rosson’s] genre-slashing ambition into the stratosphere.”—NPR

“A modern-meets-classic horror story that keeps the stakes high until the very last sentence.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Good story Bad narration

The narrator really detracts from the story. The narrator’s voice makes it hard to follow the story. I had to delisted in many places because the words were garbled.

Great story but absolutely terrible ending. It's like he gave up

Literally the worst ending to any book I've ever read or listened to. It's a great story right up until the very end

Bad narration.

Like many previous reviews, I throughly enjoyed the story and am looking forward to the next part. However, the narrator sounded like they were stoned and it definitely detracted from the experience. I even check my play speed several times while listening to ensure it wasn’t my mistake, but it was not. Still, entertaining story and I will certainly be listening to the next one, stoned narrator and all…..

Compelling but falls flat

The performance is impressive as you can hear the emotion throughout. The story is a compelling one with interesting flow and nuance, however, the conclusion leaves much to be desired. Many things can be interpreted from how it ends but nothing is clear.

Stunned by the writing, annoyed by the lack of an ending

Man this was well written… man was that ending an ending in name only. I really liked the narration, but found that I couldn’t listen in the car, as some of the narration just disappeared. Needed some compression to keep the words from falling off

There are ways to end a story and set up another one. This was not one of the good ways. I will be checking out the sequel, though. The prose saved it

the story was good so far...

I had to give up on this one because the narration was really bad. I'll just have to read this one instead.

Weird and wild

This one takes a while to wrap your head around but it is a fun process along the way. You work to figure out who everyone is, how are they connected, and what is going on but the situations are wild and the characters are so enigmatic you just can’t imagine who are the good guys, or even if there are any good guys.
Then things start clicking. This goes from “what is this? Some kind of horror noir?” to “omg, this is a cursed object that everyone wants to get their hands on!”

The main thing is Keith Rosson knows how to nail an ending. All of his books that I’ve read have left me with a book hangover

It’s like the first season of your new favorite show

Fun and fast paced story.

Loved the narration although sometimes harder to listen to in the car. But otherwise great and perfectly matched the story.

Look forward to the next book.

Hits like a loan shark!

Doesn’t let up. Not a wasted beat. Just an apocalyptic maelstrom of a story. We’re just left to pick up the carnage!

Fun! Imaginative! Well written and well read!

In a sea of boring formulaic books, Fever House is what you are looking for!

It’s fast paced, bold and gritty, with intelligent and well developed characters who are each on their own exciting and well thought out journeys.

This is an ambitious, epic scale book that promises a lot and then delightfully delivers, each arc masterfully launched and surprisingly, satisfyingly landed.

This comes down to the writing itself, phrase to phrase and thought to thought stitched together in an engaging flow that exceeds even the plot or subject of the story.

Theme, too often ignored, is delicately laced throughout, and despite the fast action of the plot, evokes emotion and connection to the human story Rosson tells.

Rare as it is, this story is actually FUN!
I am already looking forward to the next book!

Thank you!

Also, Xe Sands can read all my books. I tend to listen at a higher speed, and Xe was clear and emotive, with well conceived and clearly thoughtful character renderings, and a strong grasp of this complex story with all of its emotion and movement. It wasn’t merely read, it was obviously felt and expertly performed!

Thank you!