{"id":9323,"date":"2017-01-03T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2017-01-03T09:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:50:27","slug":"review-little-heaven-nick-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-little-heaven-nick-cutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;Little Heaven&#8217; by Nick Cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Little-Heaven-Novel-Nick-Cutter\/dp\/1501104217\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483452329&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=little+heaven+nick+cutter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9324\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-little-heaven-nick-cutter\/heaven\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?fit=1400%2C2117&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,2117\" 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=\"Heaven\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?fit=677%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9324\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?resize=231%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?resize=231%2C350&amp;ssl=1 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?resize=768%2C1161&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?resize=677%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 677w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?resize=1200%2C1815&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Heaven.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 85vw, 231px\" \/>Little Heaven\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Nick Cutter<\/strong><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Gallery Books\/Simon &amp; Schuster (January 10, 2017)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>496 pages; $19.87 hardcover; $9.99 e-book<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BluGilliand\" target=\"_blank\">Blu Gilliand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Little Heaven<\/em>\u00a0is the first major horror novel of 2017, and it&#8217;s going to take a monumental deluge of quality horror to keep it off of those end-of-year best-of lists that will start popping up 11 months from now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigdavidson.net\/nickcutter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Cutter<\/a>\u00a0has built a career on exploring and expanding his influences, particularly the work of Stephen King, and those influences once again reign supreme in\u00a0<em>Little Heaven<\/em>. Here, Cutter mines King&#8217;s magnum opus<em>, IT,\u00a0<\/em>for his book&#8217;s basic structure: group comes together, fights supreme evil, survives, disperses, and is drawn together again when the evil resurfaces years later. There&#8217;s also a hint of King&#8217;s Dark Tower series, embodied in a monster who deals in riddles.<\/p>\n<p>But make no mistake&#8212;this is no mere pastiche. Cutter may wear his influences on his sleeve, but he&#8217;s developed a clear, strong voice through his body of work. His characters are complex and relatable&#8212;perhaps not as iconic as many of the heroes and villains King has created, but they live and breathe within the context of the novel; many of them walking that shaky tightrope between good and bad, sympathetic and irredeemable. There are also humans and creatures alike that dive deep into the darkness; it&#8217;s these characters Cutter really sinks his teeth into, creating portraits of pure malevolence that are chilling and repulsive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve avoided a plot synopsis because I went into this book blind, and I hope you&#8217;ll do the same. It&#8217;s enough to say that\u00a0<em>Little Heaven<\/em> follows the trend established in Cutter&#8217;s novels\u00a0<em>The Troop<\/em> and\u00a0<em>The Deep<\/em>: take a group of characters, isolate them, and unleash hell upon them. This time around, the isolated setting is a remote religious retreat, stashed deep in a forest which has long been infected by something ancient, twisted and evil. Set against it are three mercenaries, accompanying a woman on the seemingly simple job of making sure a relative is safe within the retreat. What they find there turns all of their lives inside-out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Little Heaven<\/em>\u00a0is another excellent addition to Nick Cutter&#8217;s growing body of work, a grotesque masterpiece that sets the bar high for horror fiction in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Heaven\u00a0by\u00a0Nick Cutter Gallery Books\/Simon &amp; Schuster (January 10, 2017) 496 pages; $19.87 hardcover; $9.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Blu Gilliand Little Heaven\u00a0is the first major horror novel of 2017, and it&#8217;s going to take a monumental deluge of quality horror to keep it off of those end-of-year best-of lists that will start popping up 11 months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-little-heaven-nick-cutter\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: &#8216;Little Heaven&#8217; by Nick Cutter&#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":[301,370,1016,1015,79],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-blu-gilliand","tag-gallery-books","tag-little-heaven","tag-nick-cutter","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: &#039;Little Heaven&#039; 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