I'd describe it as a perverted, edgelord, Fellowship of The Rings.in hell. That's probably the only good thing I have to say about it. This book, was certainly not boring, it moves at a pace. I had just come off the back of reading Hellbound Heart which I very much enjoyed, so when I found out there was a follow up I used up a credit and got listening. Yes, there were some good scenes, and it was nice to see Harry D'Amour again.

You didn’t love this book-but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Some of the New York accents were a little overdone, but perhaps those are accurate to the characters. The presentation was excellent, the narrator terrific. What does John Lee bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book? Would you ever listen to anything by Clive Barker again? Hugely disappointing after such a long wait. All we get in THE SCARLET GOSPELS is a lot of wandering around, some fairly undetailed exploration of Hell, and more characters than were needed to carry the plot. To say more would be to give away what few surprises the book contained. Sadly, after hoping for some payoff all the way to the final page, we never learn Pinhead's true demonic name, the Order of the Gash (of which Pinhead is a key member) is present but never mentioned by name, the promised scene with Pinhead at The Crucifixion is missing, and the Hell-shattering confrontation doesn't include Harry D'Amour except as a bystander. What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?Īlmost a decade in the making, and butchered to half its original length (presumably by an understandably nervous publisher) this lacklustre tale fails to inspire, excite, inform or satisfy.I’d been following its slow development over the years, and was always intrigued by what I heard from Mr. Fails to inspire, excite, inform or satisfy

The scarlet gospels by clive barker