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In a rural area of southeast Virginia, tension is rising between a corporation and the mystical, mysterious people known as Squatters. Patricia, a successful lawyer, travels to the area to console her sister, Judy, whose husband has died under mysterious circumstances. She soon struggles with the memory of a past rape in the area, secrets from local law enforcement, and renewed feelings towards her old high school buddy Ernie.

This was my first Edward Lee book, and the experience was, unfortunately, underwhelming. Part of the problem with "Backwoods" is the slow pace for much of the book's first half. Yeah, there's a fight with some drug dealers, but for the most part things go slowly. After about the fifth scene of tension between Patricia and Ernie, I wanted to roll my eyes and say, "Alright, WE GET IT!" I almost quit reading altogether, but stuck with it. Things eventually do start picking up midway through, but it's somewhat painful getting there. I will say that there are a few interesting twists at the end, and the mysticism of the Squatters is well handled as it slowly reveals its true nature. I also found it amusing that literally EVERY female character (including an elderly woman and a teenage girl) is described as gorgeous with large, perky breasts. It's not that a book is bad if a female character, or a large group of female characters, has large breasts, but this just goes overboard; even Richard Laymon would've read this book and gone, "Edward Lee, you're kind of a pervert."

Like I said, the reading was underwhelming, and judging by the current average review of 3/5 stars, I assume others feel the same way. However, if any of Edward Lee's other works are more respected or polished, I welcome advice from his fans or readers.


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The Backwoods Edward Lee Books Reviews

From reading other reviews on the internet I have discovered that this is a real "love it or leave it" type of book, which I find odd because I can't seem to put my finger on why it evokes that type of emotion in people. I found this book to be a rather drab repetitive book with an interesting start and very weak ending.

Short Summary A forty something red headed, large breasted, and eternally horny female lawyer returns to her hometown to attend the funeral of her sister's sleaze ball husband. The recently murdered died under very strange circumstances and we figure out within the first four pages that he's been killing random gypsy type people who are very short, ugly in the face, and supermodel in the body... these people are simply called "Squatters." More people turn up dead, drugs start showing up, and our lead character plays with herself through all of it.

Let me just say that I had hoped Lee had matured a bit, other reviews implied he had and claimed that there was less sex in this book and more story. I'm not sure that we've all read the same book, because our leading character spends the majority of the book fantasizing and playing with herself... then there are the multiple rapes, including the rapes of children (thank goodness he didn't go into detail on that one). And if I had read the word "nipple" one more time I was going to smash my head into my nightstand.

The biggest problem with this book was its complete and total lack of focus. Lee had a good premise here, however parts that needed exploration and definition were left out or glossed over and we spent at least 30% of the book in character's sexual dreams and fantasies which he NEVER got around to explaining or turning into any sort of valid plot point. Areas that could have used more fleshing out? Well the Squatters for one... there is no history, no real hint at their power or background, all we know is that they eat strange food, don't drink alcohol, draw sigils on things, and wear chicken heads around their necks... oh and all of their women have size D boobs from the age of 10. A little more history on our lead character's family since that keeps coming up but is never explained.

When reading this it felt like Lee had many different ideas and had thought of several ways of taking the story... but he never really capitalized on any of them and instead we are left with a very plain mediocre book that only vaguely touches on the supernatural, and leaves the reader very unsatisfied. The ending followed by the epilogue being the worst parts of all, they come out of nowhere, feel forced, hollow and emotionless. I could imagine a 14 year old looking at me after I finished and saying "wasn't that SHOCKING?" and I would say, "Yeah, like the ending of High Tension was shocking, because it DIDN'T BELONG!!" there is a difference between a twist ending and dragging crap in from left field and claiming you are a genius because no one saw it coming. Of course they didn't see it coming; it shouldn't have happened because it's got nothing to do with anything else that you've written up until that point. I can't go into detail about the specifics of what irritated the crap out of me because if you are like me you are going to read this either way and I don't want to ruin it for you. But when you get down to the last 15 pages and nothing has been resolved, you too will realize that you are in for a shoddy ending.

Was this book a complete and total waste of time and money? Not for me... I got it for free and read it on my lunch break... but I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone, it's just so very mediocre, if you like Lee, pick up one of his other works and leave this one lay.
This is a great story about the old and strand ways of little pockets of America. People have a hard time thinking people still live like they did a hundred years ago, but they do. Old clan type communities that live by superstition. What if it's all real? This story takes to a time when crimes are met with old school justice. Back to a time when people took care of their own. I have seen small Appalachian communities so I know how some people still live. Not the kind of people you want to cross. Great Story about old meeting new and dealing with the old crimes of greed.
In a rural area of southeast Virginia, tension is rising between a corporation and the mystical, mysterious people known as Squatters. Patricia, a successful lawyer, travels to the area to console her sister, Judy, whose husband has died under mysterious circumstances. She soon struggles with the memory of a past rape in the area, secrets from local law enforcement, and renewed feelings towards her old high school buddy Ernie.

This was my first Edward Lee book, and the experience was, unfortunately, underwhelming. Part of the problem with "Backwoods" is the slow pace for much of the book's first half. Yeah, there's a fight with some drug dealers, but for the most part things go slowly. After about the fifth scene of tension between Patricia and Ernie, I wanted to roll my eyes and say, "Alright, WE GET IT!" I almost quit reading altogether, but stuck with it. Things eventually do start picking up midway through, but it's somewhat painful getting there. I will say that there are a few interesting twists at the end, and the mysticism of the Squatters is well handled as it slowly reveals its true nature. I also found it amusing that literally EVERY female character (including an elderly woman and a teenage girl) is described as gorgeous with large, perky breasts. It's not that a book is bad if a female character, or a large group of female characters, has large breasts, but this just goes overboard; even Richard Laymon would've read this book and gone, "Edward Lee, you're kind of a pervert."

Like I said, the reading was underwhelming, and judging by the current average review of 3/5 stars, I assume others feel the same way. However, if any of Edward Lee's other works are more respected or polished, I welcome advice from his fans or readers.