{"id":9742,"date":"2017-03-28T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2017-03-26T22:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:51:58","slug":"review-always-watching-hunter-shea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-always-watching-hunter-shea\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;We Are Always Watching&#8217; by Hunter Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Are-Always-Watching-Hunter-Shea\/dp\/1944044418\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490582603&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=we+are+always+watching+hunter+shea\" target=\"_blank\"><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9743\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-always-watching-hunter-shea\/alwayswatching\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alwayswatching.jpg?fit=314%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"314,500\" 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=\"alwayswatching\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alwayswatching.jpg?fit=314%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9743\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alwayswatching.jpg?resize=220%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alwayswatching.jpg?resize=220%2C350&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/alwayswatching.jpg?w=314&amp;ssl=1 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/>We Are Always Watching\u00a0<\/em>by Hunter Shea<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Sinister Grin Press\u00a0(March 2017)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>460\u00a0pages; $18.59 hardback; $3.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankMErrington\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Michaels Errington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to dire circumstance, Matt Riley, his wife, Debi, and their fourteen-year-old son, West, had to move in with West&#8217;s Grandpa Abraham. Grandpa insisted the place where he lived was haunted. That was fine with West, because &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(he) devoured horror books like they were M&amp;Ms.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I loved the mentions of popular horror podcasts and magazines, as well as a number of today&#8217;s most-read writers within the genre. \u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s not long, however, before the Ridleys realize something is not right about their temporary home. For West, it began with a message on the ceiling of his bedroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WE SEE YOU.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other notes with similar messages appear throughout the house and Grandpa Abraham reveals the legend of the Guardians. The activity intensifies and the notes become more and more threatening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The family dynamics in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Are Always Watching<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are perfect, so believable.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mothers were so exasperating. Every stray animal had rabies, every lawn had poison ivy laying in wait, and Halloween candy was full of razors and poison.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the way, Grandpa Abraham is one of my favorite characters so far this year. The word &#8220;curmudgeon&#8221; doesn&#8217;t begin to do him justice. Matt&#8217;s boyhood friend James sums him up nicely:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A kinder, gentler Abraham Ridley is an actual sign of the apocalypse. I literally just read that in Bible study class.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To say more would give to much of the story away and this is one you really should enjoy for yourself. Just let me say, Hunter Shea is a dependable author for a solid horror read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one book I can thoroughly recommend.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Are Always Watching\u00a0by Hunter Shea Sinister Grin Press\u00a0(March 2017) 460\u00a0pages; $18.59 hardback; $3.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Frank Michaels Errington Due to dire circumstance, Matt Riley, his wife, Debi, and their fourteen-year-old son, West, had to move in with West&#8217;s Grandpa Abraham. Grandpa insisted the place where he lived was haunted. 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