Welcome to Parkview

In a typical horror novel you have a single evil entity that is identified and it follows its only goal which is to scare/kill the main characters. After reading several books with this same arch the shock value wears thin. In Welcome to Parkview, however, evil and darkness lurk around every street......more

Not long ago, I read Brian's more recent release, Yours Truly 2095. It was fairly well-written and easy to follow. Maybe that's why Welcome to Parkview wasn't quite what I expected. While the writing was decent, it read more like a book of short stories than a novel. At times the plot was hard to fo......more

two words for this novel: MIND. STRUCK! I want to use a word rhyming with "struck," but gots'ta keep it clean. I felt like a citizen of a well messed up town. i enjoyed establishing relationships with the citizens, being the nosey neighbor with the eyes always peeping and being a budy body. Then, whe......more

Welcome to Parkview by Brian Paone is the most complex modern-day novel I have read. I have my own approach to reviewing a novel and it is completely useless in this case. There are more complex novels; many can be found in the classics, but they are complex for different reasons. There are modern d......more

I marked this as horror, because that's certainly what it's billed as and what it's trying to be. It is pretty blatant about that fact -- the Stephen King references alone get tiresome. But in all honesty, I'm not sure quite how to classify it. I never found it scary, and rarely unsettling. Let me b......more