Title: Ersatz King
Product review: A small town, an eclectic bunch of townies, mysterious doings, old newspaper clippings explaining similar past deeds, and a dark stranger - we have all seen this before. It not that Strnad's Risen is a poor book, it is because it emulates and honours too closely the works of King and Koontz who have saturated shelves with such outings. On its own, the book starts slowly in an effort to build suspense but it is arguably too slow. And by the time the action starts we see very familiar patterns that diminish any thrills.
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