FANTASTIC BOOK!!! THIS IS MY FAVORITE JAMES HERBERT BOOK.A REALLY GRIPPING,HARD TO PUT DOWN STORY.IF YOU LIKE EXCELLENT STORIES NOT FULL OF BLOOD AND GORE,YAWN!!!! THIS IS FOR YOU.IF YOU READ JUST ONE OF JAMES BOOKS,MAKE SURE ITS THIS ONE.
SUPERNATURAL THRILLER... This is a book about evil masking itself as goodness. In the small English village of Banfield, a young, deaf mute girl named Alice Pagett is transformed by a vision, and her ability to speak and hear is miraculously restored to her. Alice claims that she was visited by the Immaculate Conception, and suddenly throngs of the ill begin to gather around the place of the visitation, awaiting other miracles. They are not long in coming, as those who are afflicted in some way find themselves restored to the good... more info
Let it Shrine Some books have flaws, but I really still enjoy them. 'Shrine' is one such book. Fenn is your typical local town reporter and he does not think anything exciting is going to happen on his night shift. This can't be further from the truth when he stumbles across a small girl lying in the road. She takes him to a strange tree and turns and speaks one sentence; nothing odd about this? It turns out that Alice is a deaf mute and that her talking is a miracle. Alice becomes increasingly drawn towards the tree and... more info
Quality I consider this book to be excellent. Despite the accusations of cheese and cliche, the book is quality. I passed it onto my friends to read and they agree, the storyline is spooky, the plot development is wonderfully paced and the prose just draws you in. The ended is as ever with Herbert not the best part of the story, but quite frankly not every good story needs to lead to good ending. I'd love to see a film version of this.
