{"id":10475,"date":"2017-08-30T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2017-08-27T21:11:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T01:11:39","slug":"review-truants-lee-markham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-truants-lee-markham\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;The Truants&#8217; by Lee Markham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10476\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-truants-lee-markham\/truants\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/truants.jpg?fit=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"333,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"truants\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/truants.jpg?fit=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10476\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/truants.jpg?resize=233%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/truants.jpg?resize=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/truants.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truants-Lee-Markham\/dp\/1468313878\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1502473258&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=truants+lee+markham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Truants\u00a0<\/em>by Lee Markham<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The Overlook Press (July 2017)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>256 pages; $6.99 paperback; $12.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankMErrington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Michaels Errington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Truants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Lee Markham&#8217;s debut novel and, in some ways, it shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I admit I had a love-hate relationship with this book. It was a bit esoteric for me and the author had an annoying habit of just listing the character&#8217;s actions. For example&#8230;<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She looks at him, and shakes her head. Then she pulls the sheet up and over his face, hangs the notes back on the end of the bed and pads out of the room. The door swishes quietly closed behind her. And the boy sits up. The sheet falls away and his eyes open. They are pale. Blue irises. They&#8217;d been brown, like his skin, when he died. But now they are pale, as is his skin without blood. He has changed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The writing style aside, there is much to like in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Truants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Without ever mentioning vampires, the author manages to tell the story of the last of their kind who, a week apart, end things on the same park bench by staying out in the sun. But, due to unforeseen circumstances, they are doomed to begin again.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he dies. For just a moment, he dies, and he submits, and he gives himself to me. \u00a0This feral little rat-child kneels before me and prays for my grace. I give it to him. Then I open our eyes. And we rise.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Truants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is decidedly different, in a good way. Twisted, and filled with some remarkable imagery, and a creep factor which is exceptionally high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommended with the reservations listed above.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truants\u00a0by Lee Markham The Overlook Press (July 2017) 256 pages; $6.99 paperback; $12.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Frank Michaels Errington The Truants is Lee Markham&#8217;s debut novel and, in some ways, it shows. I admit I had a love-hate relationship with this book. It was a bit esoteric for me and the author had an annoying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-truants-lee-markham\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: &#8216;The Truants&#8217; by Lee Markham&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[312,1271,79,1272,1270],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-frank-michaels-errington","tag-lee-markham","tag-reviews","tag-the-overlook-press","tag-the-truants"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: &#039;The Truants&#039; 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