This is one of the best books I’ve ever read and I will recommend it at the top of my lungs to anyone that will listen, literally forever. This book had me glued to the pages the whole way through, I think I may have forgotten how to breath at times, there’s so much suspense and twists and turns, the atmosphere and scenes are set so well it’s like your experiencing everything with them, there’s so much going on and it goes from super fun exploration to horrifying nightmare before you can put the book down. I will never be able to listen to “moon river” to fall asleep to again ( )

Una fría noche de octubre, cinco personas se reúnen en la costa de Jersey para preparar el allanamiento del Hotel Paragon. Construido durante los años gloriosos de Asbury Park por un millonario, el magnífico edificio está ahora apuntalado y listo para su demolición.
Las cinco personas son allanadores, término que designa a los exploradores urbanos: arqueólogos de ciudad cuya pasión en investigar edificios abandonados y sus secretos. Esta noche, los ha reunido un reportero que quiere escribir un artículo sobre ellos para The New York Times.
Cuando el grupo se adentra en el túnel que conduce al hotel, se da cuenta de que el edificio es mucho más de lo que pensaban: un lugar arrasado por el tiempo y habitado por el mal.

In 1984 (I think), I read David Morrell's First Blood. I was captivated, amazed, in awe. I hadn't watched the movie, so I didn't know what to expect, nor had I read any reviews of the book. It was just something I picked up on the shelf at my local Waldenbooks-and completely out of my reading genre.

I should say my "reading age," as well. I was 12.

Since then, I hadn't read anything else by Morrell. I bounced between horror and fantasy, science fiction and science fact. So when I was last at the library, perusing the aisles, I picked up Creepers. Morrell fascinated me as a kid. Could he do the same 27 years later.

Um . . . apparently not.

Between static characters I'd met somewhere before, a setting I'd visited a few hundred times, themes of greed and time I know I'd read before, Creepers was, in a word, disappointing. I've marked it 2 stars simply because it was-in a Scooby Doo sort of way-entertaining. (In fact, I swear at least two characters would have fit perfectly into a Scooby Doo episode, and don't think I didn't imagine the big dumb dog stumbling to the rescue in at least one not-so-tense scene.)

I will likely try other Morrell novels to see if this was just an anomaly. I'd like to think so. ( )

Not entirely sure what enticed me to read this one. I think I thought it was horror. It was not; I would call it suspense/thriller. There were a few too many plot twists for my liking. At some points it felt like a teen scream (well, college-aged scream) movie. And the villain reveal and the ending sort of had a Scooby Doo feel...except with slightly more violence. This really isn't something I would normally read, but I dunno, I suppose it's good to read something different every once in a while. ( )

Creepers is quite the captivating novel, it covers a group of urban explorers who decide to visit The Paragon Hotel, an art deco hotel in Ashbury Park, New Jersey before it's pulled down. What seems straight forward slowly turns decidedly less so as upon entry to the old building the visitors find not only a building teeming with life including strangely mutated vermin, despite being apparently sealed but also a swimming pool that's full of water, despite an apparent abandonment of 40 years.

From here there are a few more twists to the story as the initial motives are not quite what was stated and the building has more mysteries to offer.

I enjoyed the story and found it quite a hard book to put down as you just want to keep going to find out where things are going and what certain events will unfold into. I was a little disappointed that mutated vermin didn't factor into the story to much of a degree, I had been expecting there to be some sort of viral action happening based on the mentions of plague, west nile, hanta in the opening pages however they didn't really factor much into the story beyond being creepy. That being said, it was still a good reading experience. ( )