but no.' Sean Patrick Hopkins Did a very good job with the material he was given and did his to keep me listening. Actually it was nice to get a break from the monotony of the story and it gave a feeling of 'hey, now something exciting is about to happen. As others have written there is 'music' and it can be a bit offputting, but no where near as offputting as the sheer boredom of the book. First around part four (of seven) did it seem to finally begin the real excitement but then it turned around and got back to boring and by then I was over half way through so I decided to see it through and boy did it feel like a chore. But every time I gave it one more chance because it seemed that now it would get a bit exciting and Sean Patrick Hopkins has a good reading voice, but alas it would only get exciting for a very short while and then back to the boring. Every time because it was soo dragging and boring. I have never been about to put a book down, as many times as I have with this one. Here’s what the Washington Post had to say about this work: 'Shaun Hamill’s A Cosmology of Monsters leads off with the most compelling opening sentence of the year (I started collecting my older sister Eunice’s suicide notes when I was seven years old) and goes on to create a seamless merger of horror and family tragedy. The only 'Lovecraftian mythos' in this story is one of the premises which just seems to be 'very lightly inspired by HPL' and then there's all the Lovecraft name dropping. Let Shaun Hamill's story work its claws into you.ĭoes NOT feel like H. It's an excellent fall read and especially great for an October/Halloween companion. Where that it was so easy in real life to explain the tragedies we experience in life as the work of monsters. All the metaphors that monsters provide are appropriate here. You care about all the characters and their lives and the story works so well because of how much you care for them.

He's an excellent narrator and give life to Shaun Hamill's tale of a family touched by something otherworldly, and the price they all have to pay as a result. Sean Patrick Hopkins brings this novel to life. I found myself putting off things that needed doing in order to listen more.

I listen to audiobooks at normal speed and I tore through this in two days. My title is very tongue in cheek at the recent trend of never wanting to call good horror movies 'horror.' Many may try to call this LITERARY HORROR but it's a horror story all the same.

Shaun hamill a cosmology of monsters