{"id":14490,"date":"2020-07-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T23:21:32","slug":"review-murmur-patrick-frievald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-murmur-patrick-frievald\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Murmur by Patrick Freivald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14491\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-murmur-patrick-frievald\/murmur-cover-ebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Murmur-Cover-eBook.jpg?fit=660%2C1056&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,1056\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Murmur-Cover-eBook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Murmur-Cover-eBook.jpg?fit=640%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14491\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Murmur-Cover-eBook-219x350.jpg?resize=219%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of Murmur by Patrick Freivald\" width=\"219\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Murmur-Cover-eBook.jpg?resize=219%2C350&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Murmur-Cover-eBook.jpg?resize=640%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Murmur-Cover-eBook.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 85vw, 219px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barkingdeerpress.com\/patrick-freivald\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Murmur <\/em>by Patrick Freivald<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Barking Deer Press (July 14, 2020)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>223 pages; $4.89 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aesiraki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A.E. Siraki<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrick Freivald, author of novels and short story collections, presents his latest, an urban fantasy thriller set in New York City, high on the eroticism, high on the grittiness, and high on the compulsive readability.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The novel starts off with Davis MacArthur, a narcissistic violinist who lives in a posh building with his girlfriend, Alisha. She comes from a very wealthy family, and they seem to be a good match. Incidentally, they both have a penchant for hard drugs, which comes into play throughout much of the erotically-charged novel. Davis\u2019s mother presents an interesting contrast to the Rated R content, as she is your typical religious die-hard Bible thumper. Be advised that this book is firmly in the camps of erotic and extreme horror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis is not like your average minor celebrity. He has a demon called Murmur in his pocket (you\u2019ll see when you get there). Unlike other stories that have explored this trope, Davis controls the demon and it doesn\u2019t possess him in the conventional sense, nor does Murmur force Davis to release a physical demon form. Still, Murmur\u2019s voice is a constant throughout. Murmur encounters a woman who terrifies him, and claims that she controls an extremely powerful entity who can destroy worlds. He warns Davis to avoid the woman at all costs and get as far away from her as possible. Davis isn\u2019t quite so readily convinced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis has something that this dangerous entity he saw on the street wants very badly, and Murmur wants the same thing. Davis tells Murmur he will never get it. What ensues is a book full of mind games, deception, murder, sex, demons, dark magic, and so much more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Readers who enjoyed Naomi Clark\u2019s novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demonized<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about Private Investigator Ethan Banning\u2019s struggles with the demon who possesses him will definitely enjoy <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Murmur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having read Freivald\u2019s work for years, I consider <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Murmur <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one of my favorites of the works he has produced. Highly recommended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murmur by Patrick Freivald Barking Deer Press (July 14, 2020) 223 pages; $4.89 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0A.E. Siraki Patrick Freivald, author of novels and short story collections, presents his latest, an urban fantasy thriller set in New York City, high on the eroticism, high on the grittiness, and high on the compulsive readability.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[80],"tags":[1810,2065,2064,1880,79],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-a-e-siraki","tag-barking-deer-press","tag-murmur","tag-patrick-freivald","tag-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Murmur by Patrick Freivald - Cemetery Dance Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A.E. 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