Dark Carnival: Serenity Falls Book 3

by James A. Moore

Book Overview

The circus is in town--the bad news is, it's raising more than a ruckus. It's raising the dead.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515139858
• ISBN13: 9780515139853
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

This is what horror is supposed to be!

I really liked the trilogy. Moore creates a great 'hero' (Crowley) and a fast paced creative story. In my opinion, his writing is on the same level as Stephen King and Koontz. Lots of questions and unusual twists.

Grendelkahn

This is a really well written series, and if you are a fan of John Constantine you'll love the main character, but I do have one complaint. There are too many characters to keep track of. There is literally a cast of hundreds in this series, so you never really get to feel anything for most of the characters because they're here one minute and gone the next and they don't pop up again for fifty or so pages. It takes a lot of thinking back on who did what, who's related to who, what their family did in the past. I still stand by this book as being one of the better horror authors I've read in recent past but I just feel that the author could have rolled a few of these characters together in order to have a more fluid story with a deeper sense of tragedy for the characters and the events that unfold.

Crowley's Tale

This is the final book in the Serenity Falls trilogy. Originally written as one book, it was re-released as three. Each book is a story in it's self, the third is the climax of everyone's story with Jonathan Crowley as the main protagonist. Crowley is a hunter, more than, or, not human, but only when a supernatural threat is present. When amongst regular humans, Crowley is simply a cranky, curmudgeon of a man. A hunter who is very unsure of what is coming, only clear that something is near. The Dark Carnival is coming. A rotting fleshly train runs down train tracks that are broken and unusable. Tents grow, sprouting from the ground, on a farm where murder was done years ago. The stench of rotting flesh is rampant as the Big Top rises. More than one person comes forward to be heroic, some die, some do help. The story is fast, horrific and bloody. Not everyone can or will be saved. Believable, and well written. James A. Moore knows how to write, and I will continue to read his books.

Excellent ending to a great trilogy

This book is the third and final in the Serenity Falls trilogy.It is also the most action packed and best.Book one was the start.Book two slowed things down.Book three everything blows up.The story centers around the town of Serenity Falls and the events that took place there over a period of three hundred years.A man's wife was brutally raped and burned at the steak for being accused of being a witch.Abert Miles did not take it very well.A curse was placed and fast forward to now. Albert Miles is back to see his revenge is completed and nothing will stop him, but there are those that wil try.Jonathan Crowley is one of them and there are others that will help him but he is the only one that can truly stop it.Who is John Crowley?We are never told but there are some hints.He is not human at least not completely.What does he exactly do?He fixes situations that are waht you and i consider not ordianary but there is a catch.He has to play by the rules.Albert Miles does not. For those of you that have read the entire trilogy you will be greatly rewarded.For those of you that have not.Read the first two books first otherwise alot of this will not make any sense.Mr.Moore is a great writer and genuinely makes you care about the characters he creates. I reccomend all books by him and look forward to Blood Red coming out in october i believe. For those of you that read book one,you should pick up Blood Red it features one of the chracters Crowley runs into but does not stop.