Clive Barker Random: Review of His Novels and other Works

1.Calilee

What I wanna talk about first is Clive Barker’s “Galilee”.

I finished reading the book eventually, but I ended up not knowing what the ending is about.+_+

Actually, the story isn’t so bad, I like the members of the Barbarossa family a lot, they’re very interesting as characters, especially Maddox, Zabrina, Marrietta, Nicodemus and Cesaria etc. and the stories/battles inside the Geary clan are good too. I mean not many families can be like this u know. it kinda reminds me of "The Lives of Mayfair Witches", one of Anne Rice's masterpieces, and as a chronicle of two powerful families the book has done its job well, but as a supposedly-romance...well, let say Barker, the master of horror and dark wonder doesn't get along with romance very well, okay? (when it comes to Barker's style of romance, I prefer something darker and more bloody and sinfully romantic, okay at least something more *believable*, like Frank and Julia in The Hellbound Heart, a lovers bound by sin, blood and murder, see what I mean?) So just don't expect too much from the book.

And then the problem of "Galilee" comes, Rachael and Galilee.

I found that they’re just too weak and uninteresting as the main characters in the story damnit. Rachael is just like almost all of Barker’s heroines in his many other novels: beautiful, strong and positive, but then nothing special. And Galilee…he isn’t even as unique as the other Barbarossas, you know all of the other Barbarossas(even some of the Gearys) has quite a story to tell, but unluckily not Galilee. The story of his past sucked like hell.*sighs* beside I can’t find he did a single thing in the novel that might impress me. How come!???*sighs*

And I didn’t find an impressive thing in the romance between Rachael and Galilee too, I duno whether it’s some difference btw western and eastern cultures when it comes to romance. But as a eastern reader, the “love” btw the two doesn’t even look believable, i don't even have a clue how come they'd fall in love with each other,it sucks…

And what happen to the end can anyone tell me? I know Barker’s planning to write a sequel after “Galilee” but such a half ass ending can’t work! I feel like a fool after I spent quite a number of hours to read through such a brink to end up in a ending like *this*! we deserve better!

If u have different opinion, plz tell me. Maybe I’d overlooked something I duno. But if so, correct me.  

PS: the reading of " Calilee" is hardly a satisfied one, but more reviews will come...i swear they will be better than "Galilee".

 Cabal-Nightbreed/Books of Blood (coming soon)