This was a rather visceral little monster of a novella, excellent story telling device used to convey multiple points of view with a slightly noir edge and an economy of style. It takes a bit for things to get rolling, but the set-up in the beginning is quite necessary to fully flesh-out the gravity of all that comes to a head. This character driven vortex explores the trauma of post-war PTSD's, bruised relationships, and dire obsession, as the layers get peeled back and the open wounds start to This was a rather visceral little monster of a novella, excellent story telling device used to convey multiple points of view with a slightly noir edge and an economy of style.
This character driven vortex explores the trauma of post-war PTSD's, bruised relationships, and dire obsession, as the layers get peeled back and the open wounds start to pull you into the quagmire and mythology of historical sins and ritual blood lettings. I wanted it to continue on for another couple of chapters but the ending makes complete senses, I just didn't want the 28 Teeth to stop raging! Aug 18, John Palisano rated it really liked it. I loved this book, and probably for all the wrong reasons.
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Well, it's not for everyone. If you dig 'normal' storytelling and paint-by-numbers procedurals, you're going to be frustrated. However, if you're looking for something that is not ordinary, you may enjoy this. There was a lot of Military action and stuff going down, which was fine, and there were sprinkles of the story to come. About halfway through, I was like, what the heck is this? And then things changed and the walls came down and Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage really took off for me.
I love William S. Burroughs, and psychedelia, and experimental work. Last, I want to talk about the writing style. I loved it, even though it took a bit of getting used to because it's in a very stream-of-conciousness kind of style. Loved it, recommend it, hope you enjoy it, too.
Jun 18, Benjamin Ethridge rated it it was amazing. Ennis Drake's writing absolutely cooks. From start to finish, I was enthralled with his imagery, language, and mastery of creating horrific chaos deep deep deep in the soul. This is a story that could have been another tired horror exercise-- the haunting of a man, his madness that ensues and the various destruction it causes in his life and to his loved one s ; for me, this type of tale, barring stunning creativity, has become older than space dust.
Even with a spark of originality, you Ennis Drake's writing absolutely cooks. Even with a spark of originality, you're most often looking at literary junk food at best. And yet, the flare, energy, passion, and courageous choice to go for the astounding rather than the easy, mediocre, blended-down version, sets 28 Teeth of Rage apart from most others in its category. If this is junkfood, then it is indeed a red-velvet twinkie set upon a china plate with a chocolate drizzle design piped there by a master chef. I cannot wait to devour a main course from this brilliant new author.
Jun 11, S. This is a tale of possession and madness, but the kind that any sane person will understand. This is a hell of a ghost story, one you won't forget thanks to This is a tale of possession and madness, but the kind that any sane person will understand. Jun 08, M Griffin rated it really liked it. This short debut novel quickly establishes that newcomer Ennis Drake can really write. The narrative voice is strong, rich with nuance and flavor. Scene after scene exhibits Drake's competence at playing out a narrative thread. The book is clearly in the horror category but also has a noir genre feel to it, including the common noir element of the emotionally or psychologically damaged law enforcement officer for a main character.
The whole story, every character interaction, is a pool of hard, This short debut novel quickly establishes that newcomer Ennis Drake can really write. The whole story, every character interaction, is a pool of hard, bitter emotions. Everybody in the book seems hurt and wanting, stuck in an agonizing pattern of self-defeat and dysfunction. Characters seem realistically flawed, emotionally alive.
It's clear what they want and what's keeping them from getting it. Drake's strength as a writer is in clearly rendering these people particularly Riley, the protagonist so they seem believable and familiar to the reader. Throughout this book, I felt what the characters felt. The ability to give the reader this experience is arguably the most important determinant of whether a book succeeds or fails. On this test, I say Drake easily passes. The novel is quite strong in terms of execution, of conveying believable characters with a strong narrative voice. An aspect I consider less successful is the central conceit of the possessed or demonic power saw.
Despite King's success with this approach, I'd argue a stronger, more interesting antagonist or threat could be created by not merely applying demonic or malignant qualities to a mundane object. I'd love to see Drake's skill for storytelling, and the creation of realistic characters, applied to a stronger, more complex basic concept. The only other shortcoming is in those sections of written or recorded testimonies of characters in their own voices, which sound not like a real person telling their story, but more formal, like a novel's narrator.
Through these segments important backstory is revealed, so these passages are necessary, yet the tone is slightly off. This problem does not exist with the novel's spoken dialog, which is both naturalistic and believable, so it's clear Drake knows how to convey the way people really speak.
This minor quibble applied only to the sections of Jodi's diary and Strom's recorded testimony, and really didn't detract much from my enjoyment of the book. These reservations were certainly outweighed by the confident, fluent prose and believable characterization. Overall, Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage is a compelling, passionately-told drama, and a successful piece of writing.
From the first page I was impressed with Drake's ability to draw the reader into an intense, vividly emotional scene. Flaws may be present, but not many for a first novel. I'm eager to see how Ennis Drake applies his obvious authorial talents to different story concepts in the future. Dec 13, Jason Rolfe rated it really liked it. Ennis Drake is a very good writer. With Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage he seamlessly weaves journal entries, recorded monologues, and horrific visions into a compelling story that bleeds raw emotion.
The depth of character, the intricacy of thought and misguided motive, and the vivid realism Drake brings to each and every page make this short novel both compelling and difficult to put down. While Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage is pure, unapologetic horror, it symbolizes the very real pursuit of life Ennis Drake is a very good writer. While Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage is pure, unapologetic horror, it symbolizes the very real pursuit of life and liberty at any cost, the idea that these pursuits, coupled with a lack of social conscience, are often achieved at the expense of others.
In short, we step on the backs of those around us in order to achieve our own lofty goals. In this novel, Drake uses brutal violence to demonstrate this societal shortcoming. He is an extremely talented writer with something very important to say. Armed with a combination of skill and purpose he is certainly a welcome voice in horror.
Jun 12, Brent Kelley rated it it was amazing. It's not a long read pages , but it's a good read. The story is brilliantly conceived and masterfully executed. The Yaholos stand out, led by the gruesome Hadjo. But that was a long time ago. This story stuck with me, and I'm certain I'll think about it every time I use my chop saw.
May 28, Keith Deininger rated it it was amazing. I couldn't stop reading this one actually, I sneaked away at work and took a half hour 2 to finish it ;. The shifting narrative voices technique can come across as contrived, but Drake pulls it off beautifully.
Very well-told and excellent prose style. I should probably give this 4 stars, but, fuck it--I really enjoyed Drake's flagrant violence and gore. Jun 25, David rated it really liked it. This is a slim novel, but the writing here quickly encapsulates the reader in a bottle of horror. It's a story about darkness and what happens when we let darkness consume our hearts and minds.
I'm looking forward to more stories from this author. Jun 11, Hal Bodner rated it did not like it. Had it been written as a short story, Ennis Drake's "Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage" might have been a genuinely creepy, off-beat tale of horror. Compression would have done this novella a world of good, intensifying the horror elements, forcing the author to develop character more efficiently and helping to create a viable plot. As it stands however, "Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage" is just a silly bit of stuff that completely fails to work on any level.
It's no spoiler to mention that the twenty-eight Had it been written as a short story, Ennis Drake's "Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage" might have been a genuinely creepy, off-beat tale of horror.
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It's no spoiler to mention that the twenty-eight teeth of the title belong to a power saw--a demonic power saw inhabited by the spirit of an Indian totem no less. While stories about unusual or non-traditional haunted objects can be delightfully spooky, one needs to do more with the conceit than to simply pick an odd object for the haunting. It's not that Drake doesn't TRY to do something with what could have been an interesting idea, he simply fails miserably. What's more, the plot contrivance and it is indeed contrived concerning a soldier who has lost his legs and is now "half a man" an expression which is an example of how sorely this book lacks originality being tempted to do evil in exchange for the return of his legs is both hackneyed and poorly executed.
What purport to be several parallel plot lines fall flat and seem more inchoate than incomplete, much as if the author threw them in because he thought they'd be "cool. Other authors have tackled the same themes albeit without the haunted saw which, in the end, provides no improvement whatsoever much more concisely, in far more entertaining manner, and with far more originality. Drake's version is bland and lacks any originality.
Nothing is really completed in terms of plot; aspects of the story crop up and are left hanging. The reader never has the feeling that the characters are real people. The characters don't even rise to the level of being cardboard or two dimensional--they're just blandly presented in a way that startled me with how much an author would have to work to create such uninteresting people. In short, unless you have an unrequited passion for haunted electric saw novels, you can skip this one. Aug 04, Beverly rated it really liked it. This book is a fun entry into the slasher genre.
While it isn't my favourite genre, I still found Drake's book to be a page-turner. I read it in one sitting and found that it kept me saying "Just one more page" until I got to the end. I particularly liked the historical elements, being a fellow Floridian. If you like slasher, I can definitely recommend this.
If you like a twisted look at historical figures, I can recommend it as well. Apr 25, Marilou Johnson marked it as to-read Shelves: Another interesting looking FREE book!
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Jul 14, Todd Russell rated it it was ok Shelves: Great title, good cover artwork and the blurb pulled me into this novella. It opens with a bloody scene that happened in the past and then flashes forward to present day with a detective who receives a disturbing package. An evil totem that enjoys suffering and transcends time haunts a skill saw, er k ill saw, in the hands of a vet who lost his legs and is "literally half a man" a description in both the blurb and story which seems wrong on so many levels.
This one tries ridiculously hard to be Great title, good cover artwork and the blurb pulled me into this novella. This one tries ridiculously hard to be scary, but the bloody action flows a bit too fast to learn about anybody enough to care about them.
While we should feel sorry for the man in the wheelchair, or fear what he might do with the haunted saw, instead he comes across as an empty vessel for bad things to happen. The most sympathetic, likable character is his wife, but instead of seeing scenes unfold through her eyes third person POV , we're told them in less compelling first person pov diary entries. The detective narrative could have been more exciting had he actually interacted with the others beyond being an official who gets an anonymous mail and struggles alone to figure everything out.
On the Kindle formatting side, there was something wrong with apostrophes in the version I read. Like a weird character had invaded where they should have been leaving a question mark with a square around it and punched me out of the narrative several times. The publisher might want to investigate and resolve this gremlin.
In summary, a nice package get them interested in reading, that's a big hurdle to overcome with so many reading choices these days , an interesting idea with shaky execution at times particularly with pacing and characterization. There is noticeable talent shown here. Don tries to convince Alice to flee but she refuses to leave without the boy, and when the infected corner her and the boy in a bedroom, Don abandons his wife and the boy and flees the cottage by himself.
With dozens of infected in hot pursuit, Don flees across the farmland to the river dock, where Jacob is attempting to escape by a motorboat. While Don gets into the motorboat and starts it up, Jacob falls into the river and is infected by the infected who have waded into the waters after the survivors, then killed by Don with the motorboat's propeller-blades. Don then escapes downriver from the infected, emerging as the sole survivor. After the Rage outbreak destroys and wipes out Britain, over the following twenty-eight weeks, the infected die from starvation, and a US -led NATO force enters London and begins repatriating the city with Britons who escaped during the exodus of infected Britain in the outbreak.
Among the military force that guard and protect London and its repatriated residents are wisecracking sniper Doyle , and his good friend helicopter pilot Flynn , as well as chief medical officer Scarlet Levy and operation leader General Stone , and Don Harris who is caretaker of the fully-functional and fortified repatriation zone District One in London. Among the latest repatriated arrivals to London are Don and Alice's children Tammy and Andy , and the admittance of children into District One without Scarlet's authorisation shocks and worries her.
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During the two kids' medical inspection, Scarlet notes that Andy has the same heterochromic green and brown eye colour his mother Alice did. Andy and Tammy are reunited with their father Don, who takes them to his luxurious District One penthouse. When the kids ask about what happened to their mother, Don tells them about the infected attack on the cottage during the pandemic, but lies that he saw the infected kill Alice.
The following night, Andy has a nightmare of Alice tearing her face off as Andy fears he'll forget his mother's face; so the next morning, Tammy decies to sneak out of District One with Andy to get a picture of Alice from their old home, though Doyle notices the two sneak out and alerts Flynn. In the ruined, unoccupied area of London, after taking a motorbike from an abandoned pizzeria, Tammy uses it to drive herself and Andy across an empty London to their old home, where the siblings grab a picture of Andy and Alice together and stay to collect their other lost old belongings at the house.
While exploring the old Harris home alone, a shocked Andy finds Alice living in one of the rooms, physically and mentally dishevelled from her isolation but otherwise alive. The reunion is cut short when the US military , having been sent to bring Tammy and Andy back to District One, arrive and take them and Alice back to the green zone, where Alice is separated from the kids and the three are detained.
During medical inspection of Alice, Scarlet is about to do a blood test and is trying to ask Alice how she stayed alive out in the post-outbreak country, when she notices an old bite scar on Alice's arm and fears Alice may be infected. Meanwhile, Don goes to a detained Tammy and Andy to take them home, but the kids are furious with their father for lying to them about their mother's fate and demand to know the truth about what really happened.
Guilty over abandoning his wife, Don leaves and slips past the military security to go to Alice in the isolation room. Scarlet wants to keep Alice alive for more tests in hopes of finding a key to immunisation against the Rage virus from Alice's blood, but Stone wants to have Alice killed to ensure she can't cause another outbreak of infection. In the isolation room, Don begs Alice to forgive him for abandoning her, which she seemingly does. Upon learning infection is spreading, Stone and the other generals move to a safety bunker and execute a District One lockdown called Code Red.
As the Rage virus spreads and chaos takes hold, when the spread reaches the detainment area where Tammy and Andy are, Scarlet comes and rescues the kids and tries to get them evacuated to safety as top-priority figures. As District One's military forces mobilise against the outbreak, in the garage where Andy and the civilians are locked in, the infected Don breaks into the garage as a horrified Andy watches and attacks the civilians, causing the infection to massively and virulently spread among the civilians there in a domino effect and quickly infecting dozens - hundreds.
In the panic, the civilians break out of the garage and flee into the streets, while Andy escapes from the infected through the ventilation systems. In the streets of District One, Doyle and the other rooftop snipers are initially ordered to shoot only infected, but as the infection continues to spread and it becomes harder to tell the infected from uninfected, they're ordered to kill everyone in sight. Andy escapes from the chaos and infected into a warehouse where other survivors are holed up as the military massacre everyone, while Doyle - unable to comply with kill-all order - abandons his post and joins the survivors in the warehouse.
There, Andy reunites with Scarlet and Tammy and sadly informs his sister of how their father is one of the infected, and Doyle offers the kids, Scarlet and three other survivors there to escape the chaotic green zone with him before the military inevitably exterminates them with the infected. Doyle subsequently leads the group through the empty streets towards the District One perimeter, trying to fight off snipers shooting at them along the way although two of the three other survivors are killed along the way.
Just as the Air Cavalry arrive to firebomb District One, Doyle, Andy, Scarlet, Tammy and Sam the remaining other survivor escape over the District One perimeter just as the green zone is firebombed and destroyed and thousands there killed. The generals watch District One burn from in their bunker, but Stone also sees that a large number of infected have survived the firebombing and are escaping into London.
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As dawn arrives, Doyle and the other four survivors travel across an empty and dilapidated London to Regent's Park to be airlifted to safety by Flynn when he comes to Doyle. As Scarlet and Doyle discuss how they ended up turning against the military and how Scarlet saved Tammy and Andy because she believes they may have inherited their mother's immunity to the symptoms of the Rage virus, Tammy and Andy think about all that has happened, and Tammy admis she doesn't believe Alice has survived this time.
Flynn warns Doyle over the radio of the surviving infected loose in London, and a large horde of the infected then arrive at Regent's Park as Flynn flies to the Park for Doyle by helicopter. When Flynn sees Doyle has rescued civilians, he refuses to take them with them to safety, especially when Doyle wants Flynn to take them across the English Channel to safety in Europe. As the infected attack, Flynn is forced to leave when Sam grabs onto his helicopter in a panic, though not before Flynn mows a majority of the attacking infected to shreds using his helicopter's rotor blades.
Doyle, Scarlet, Andy and Tammy flee back into London from the remaining infected, and Flynn instructs Don over the radio to abandon the others and meet Flynn at Wembley Stadium for pickup. When the military begin pumping nerve gas into London, Doyle, Scarlet and the Harris siblings take refuge from the gas in a van as the gas kills off the infected pursuing them. After the gas has killed the infected, when Doyle sees soldiers armed with flamethrowers approaching, he goes out to push the car by jump-starting, but is killed in the process when the soldiers see and incinerate him with their flamethrowers.
Scarlet tries to avoid the military as she drives Tammy and Andy through London, until an air attack forces the trio to abandon the van and flee into the London Underground. There, Scarlet tries to guide Tammy and Andy through the dark Underground with Doyle's rifle's night-vision scope. However, while guiding the siblings down an escalator, the three get separated when Andy and Tammy fall down the stairs. Scarlet manages to find Tammy, but the former is just afterwards attacked and beaten to death by an infected.