You really can't go wrong with this one if you like fiction that keeps you guessing while making your heart race as the suspense builds.
Particularly if the mother was less a liberal cliche and instead simply a thoughtful person who can't quite take in what she's experiencing.Two, this is a book that doesn't end, it simply stops.That is annoying!You have two plot strands here ,one in the present and one 20 years earlier.Evans doesn't bridge them.So you don't know how George got from one place to the next.Nor does he resolve anything.How did the adult George emerge - who knows? What is going to happen to him - again who knows? This is one of those unusual books that should have been longer.įinally, in writing about THE WHITE DEVIL I observed that I thought it could be the basis of a good movie.Interestingly I don't feel the same can be said about GOOD, in part because it is a much better book.It's more "literary" and interior and far less visual. The "chemistry" just isn't there!Evans would have done better to have had a little more convergence here ,which might have created more tension.
Two things about the book annoyed me.One, the protagonist, George has parents you can't believe are married to each other.The father is a traditionalist Episcopalian and reactionary.The mother a PC liberal type and religious skeptic. I'm glad I read the authors second novel THE WHITE DEVIL before reading A GOOD.I enjoyed THE WHITE DEVIL but never found it remotely persuasive.Had I read GOOD first I would also have found it disappointing.The earlier novel is much more fully realized with believable characters and an interesting plot.Actually it is not a book about demonic possession, rather it's closer to demonic harassment.Early on the book has some genuinely chilling moments and I did find it a "page turner".
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