Loved Dan Simmons Summer of Night

Submitted by FullAhjosu12 t3_y9jt5r in books

If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it. Good supernatural, mystery thriller. If it were a movie it would have a Sandlot meets It feel. I have never read “It” but have heard the ending gets weird. Loved this ending. It mostly works with a small suspension of belief. Hope you enjoy it.

And thank you to whoever suggested Summer of Night. I can’t remember who did but good recommendation.

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drewfarndale t1_it6gj3u wrote

Give {{Boy's Life by Robert McCammon}} a go. Similar elegiac feel, of long ago summers and a boy trying to find his way in a small Alabama town, to it.

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codeoverdose1 t1_it9qrf9 wrote

Thank you for reminding me I need to read the next book in the series.

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FullAhjosu12 OP t1_itcel36 wrote

Let me know if you like them. I am not usually a fan of “sequels” that take place 20 years later.

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codeoverdose1 t1_itclgt2 wrote

I read "A Winter's Haunting". It kept me engaged, but not near on the level of Summer of Night. However your post spurred me to order Children of the Night so I'll lyk.

From my understanding, they're not direct sequels, in that the storyline from the first book doesn't resume. Just the characters are reused, and there are references to what happened in SoN. That was the case in Winter's Haunting, so I assume the same in Children of the Night.

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rxm1081 t1_it9tchw wrote

I enjoyed this as well. It was a bit long though. It seems like stranger things stole some ideas from this book.

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FullAhjosu12 OP t1_itcebqe wrote

Yeah. Now that you mention it. The school, the tunnels. There were definitely some elements of the story that I felt like he started and did nothing with. I was waiting for things to come full circle on a couple story elements that never seemed to. I was just happy he wrapped everything up so well. I hate when you get to the end of a story and the heroes hold hands and hug and the power of love is what won in the end.

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