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Brought
together in the woods for a survival camp, three groups of women find
survival to
be the name of the game when a fissure has appeared and opened a gate
to
hell. Released from confinement, demons
now seek to capture women to breed their spawn on.
Their only hope? Guardian demon’s that hold the
magic, which is the key to their salvation, within their dark bodies.
Nature of the Beast:
Hellgate is the
second horror release from Changeling Press.
It is also the longest book I have read from them to
date. And while Ms. Sims certainly has a
talent for
words, creating wonderfully vivid pictures, Hellgate is not a tale for the
faint-hearted. Ms. Sims writing is on par
with Stephen King
for horror and vividness, creating a thick tapestry of good and evil
that
lingers in the mind long after the final pages is tuned.
There are far too many good characters to
list here – Demitra and her lover, Gauron; Carol and Alan; even the
weird
Chesney. Hellgate is dark eroticism at its
best. And in the grand tradition started
by Stephen
King, Ms. Sims leaves us with more questions than answers in the end.
Reviewed
by Meribeth McCombs for The Road to Romance
September
7, 2004
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