Ling's Report

I am the type of person who enjoys books of a psychological nature. The human mind is one of the most familiar yet most mysterious aspects of humanity, capable of surprising us even after we believe we have seen it all. When someone recommended In This Way I was Saved to me by saying that it was a great psychological story, I decided to give it a shot and I was not disappointed. In This Way I was Saved is a book published in 2009, the first ever novel by Brian DeLeeuw. The story is told from the point of view of a boy named Daniel and his friendship and relationship with another boy named Luke. Luke himself is a seemingly normal child, but his personal life is plagued with many problems, particularly his psychologically disturbed mother. Luke’s friendship with Daniel is one of the only things he can enjoy when he needs to take refuge from the harshness of the real world; however, as the two grow older, Luke finds himself depending less and less on Daniel. Daniel doesn’t like th...

Last Days is a 2012 novel by Adam Nevill about a documentary maker named Kyle Freeman. Kyle is contacted by a man named Maximillian Solomon who wants him to make a film about the Temple of the Last Days, a cult run by a woman named Sister Katherine that was thought to have met its end when several members, Sister Katherine included, were found dead from what looked like a gruesome suicide ritual. Kyle, in desperate need of money, takes the job and begins filming, but complications begin to arise in strange sightings and dreams. Soon, Kyle begins to wonder if the Temple of the Last Days has some secrets of a more insidious nature. The atmosphere of the story is well-developed, particularly the cult. While the Temple of the Last Days itself seems to be an amalgamation of several horrific stereotypes associated with cults, the real life existence of such cults such as the one founded by Jim Jones does help in making the Temple not seem too over the top. The atrocities committed by...