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Wasn't sure where the story was going but it kept my interest to the end...somewhere between fantasy and a sci-fi story.


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What if there actually a balance that kept the world whole; what if that balance was disturbed? What would nature do to save itself? Would the mass destruction of humankind be in order, maybe so? In the speculative horror novel, The Nature of Balance by Tim Lebbon, something has caused disturbed the balance between man and nature. In a single evening, those who lay down to sleep suffered from brutal dreams from which most did not awaken.

There are those who were lucky enough to survive, the ones who had not gone to bed yet, the insomniacs, the nightshift workers, and those who awaken from their bad dream to screams of their loved ones around them dying brutally. On the other hand, were they truly lucky? While humanity laid shuddering, screaming and dying in their sleep the world shifts and changes. Nature mutates taking on an alien form turning on humanity, ejecting them, leaving a world where only the strongest can survive.

In this newly evolved world, we follow the paths of Blane and Peer. Blane is a naturalist who enjoys spending his time naked in the woods and cannot remember his past. Peer is a shy introvert who does not have many friends and feels as if she has no place she truly belongs. Guided by a mysterious antagonist the duo are destined to meet in order to unravel what went wrong with the balance and the shocking secrets of Blane's past.

With the touch of an artist, Lebbon coaxes you into the horrifying reality he has created through a magnificent manipulation of words. His words twist around your senses, teasing you, dragging you deeper into the nightmare step-by-shocking-step making it difficult to put down the book. His main characters are a likable sort of people and his antagonists mysterious and tragic. Though they were lacking depth, it was as if you glimmer of the person but not the whole picture. But somehow you still care what happens to them, including the antagonist.

The storyline was intriguing constantly teasing you with questions; the answers just out of reach, making you turn each page in hopes of another glimmer that will help you tie the story together. Lebbon does an excellent job of keeping you guessing just when you think you figured out the storyline he tosses in something new.

Through the entire story, it was like riding on a fast moving train rushing from stop to stop. Never stopping long enough to give you time to take in the history of each stop, to appreciate how it became what it was, before rushing off to the next amazing sight. More time could have been spent on fleshing out the background story of the characters or events, tying them in tighter to the how and why of the story. Supporting characters are loosely weaved throughout the story but you develop no bond to them. If they die, they die...no loss.

Overall, as a speculative horror novel I give Tim Lebbon a high five on doing a smashing grand job. His story was an amazing read that kept me devouring the pages to the end. I still will highly recommend this as an excellent read to my friends, even though I felt it would have been better if it were a longer story to give the full effect of the background of events and characters. The story line was refreshing and I did enjoy being dragged through all the thrilling gory events to the end. I look forward to reading more of his work.
The Nature of Balance by Tim Lebbon was received direct from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Tim Lebbon is one of the true masters of modern horror. This book, as others have stated, has its moments of horror and those moments are good, but far between. The reader is then pulled down in minutiae about the characters, what they are thinking, blah blah. Some love this in novels, though I dont know. I was detracted me from the story, hoping it would quickly return to the book of horror. Overall the book lost me and I found myself skimming a lot. If you like "thinking mans" horror stories this is for you, if you haven't read this author, perhaps you should start with another one of his newer works.
The plot was not believable, almost boring in the author's attempt to find all of the ridiculous ways that nature could be twisted. The characters were boring and when the main plot was finally revealed it was a surprise but not in a good way . . . I'm thinking "Oh, really, I read this whole not believable story and finally get to what should be the good part and think that there was nothing in the story to make me buy into the conclusion. Completely disappointing . . a waste of what I hoped would be a good read.
A well written story, flowing with images and a carefully crafted poetry of horror. It is rare that great hope can be birthed with such terrible midwives as change and destruction.
I read this book in 3 nights. That had never happened to me before this book, and I don't understand what these people who didn't like the book are talking about, and the only thing I can think of is "you're way too dramatic". Maybe you should quit drinking and start on some Prozac or something.

I started to read this book just to make fun of a friend of mine who had bought it at a drugstore, and I'll admit it, in the beginning the descriptions felt really dumb and campy, but the whole thing grew on me right after the first body explosion, how jacked up would it be to explode just because you fell asleep?, and by the time I was done with it I wanted to do a comic book on it. I think the reason why some of the characters get where they do is due to the fact that they don't care so much for what's happening. My jerky and dorky critic fellows, if you care too much about the distress of things around you you will be most definitely dead in no time. Besides, have you ever stayed up for longer than 48 hours? You won't care about sh8t by the time you get to the 28th hour.

Now, literature is the most personal of all art forms, because they bring up to the surface everything that is hidden inside our mind in a way that only we can understand. So saying that a book is bad is just as bad as a "bad" book. Just keep your "bad" opinions to yourselves and tell others what is good about what you read. Not everyone is as smart and intellectual as you.
Huge fan of Tim Lebbon and this was the book that got me started reading him. I highly recommend it!
'Nature personified and given a split personality' about sums it up.
Wasn't sure where the story was going but it kept my interest to the end...somewhere between fantasy and a sci-fi story.