{"id":2940,"date":"2023-06-08T15:33:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:39:34","slug":"fever-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"Fever House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his acknowledgements, Rosson calls this \u201ca wild fever dream of a novel,\u201d and he nailed it. Where to start with this feral read? Since it\u2019s a horror\/suspense novel, the first gory moment seems apt: when a crime boss\u2019s enforcers threaten a man with a drug addiction who owes a payment and the man asks, \u201cWhat\u2019re you gonna do? Knock my teeth out?\u201d He then goes on to do the job himself, with his own filthy fingers. The enforcers find a severed hand during their work, one that causes those nearby to feel the need to do tremendous violence, the urge \u201c[slithering] in. It floats on a dark wave.\u201d The gore gets more sophisticated\u2014\u201cmake me a necklace from the heads of your children\u2026make me a red veil from their latticed veins\u201d\u2014only adding to the supernatural head-spinning. At the same time, we follow the life\u2026if he or it is alive\u2026of a being called Saint Michael, a secret captive of the U.S. government. Saint Michael can sometimes see visions of future events, especially when periodically \u201cencouraged\u201d by the agonizing process of government agents trimming his wings. In counterpoint to the government actions we meet a musician, Katherine Moriarty, who was very successful in her day but now is agoraphobic, her closed-in life perhaps related to the bizarre goings-on elsewhere in the novel. All converge in a terrifying episode in Portland, Oregon, that will surely be a highlight of the movie that is already being made of this terrific novel. Every word here is crafted to impart just the right level of revulsion, fear, and, at times, wonder. <strong>Get ready for awards nods for this work as well as comparisons to the works of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his acknowledgements, Rosson calls this \u201ca wild fever dream of a novel,\u201d and he nailed it. Where to start with this feral read? Since it\u2019s a horror\/suspense novel, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[173,75,174,73,50,51],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-apocalyptic","tag-horror","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-science-fiction","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Fever-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Fever-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}