- Paperback: 314 pages
- Publisher: Yellow Horse Publishing (13 Sep 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0982836406
- ISBN-13: 978-0982836408
- Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,843,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Barbara Ducharme's got a plan: she's going to stitch her fraying family back together with a little help from... Satan Mired in an homogenous suburban hell where happiness is always one impulse purchase away, what's a housewife to do when her frozen marriage refuses to thaw, and her children's lives are falling apart before they've even had a chance to begin? A trip to a run-down, mountain home she's inherited from a mysterious relative sounds like an ideal way to break the routine, and break the news she's been dabbling in the dark side. Then they showed up--three masked assailants on their own little adventure filled with terror, torment and torture. Of course, there's no accounting for the toll years of family dysfunction has taken on their victims. For Barbara, the brutal assault may be just the thing to bring her twisted family together. For the intruders, it could be wrong family, wrong time. sWitch is a sophisticated, subversive romp that blends the sexy with the supernatural, knowing just when to turn up the humor and when to turn down the lights. So light a fire, lock your doors, and get ready to turn the tables on everything you've ever known about horror fiction.
About the Author
Scott Norton lives and writes at the New Jersey Shore where they roll up the sidewalks in winter. He also composes and performs "high energy modern rock" with a band called Surrounded by Idiots. Recently, he was voted Pretty-Scary's "Scary Stud of the Year Runner-Up", finishing above torture porn director Eli Roth. Other hobbies include surfing, staying fit and battling a dermestid beetle infestation which serves as the basis for a new horror novel-in-progress entitled The Fold.Scott graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications where he majored in television and film writing and minored in Elizabethan drama, and then entered the family marketing business where he wrote a ton of industrial scripts and ad copy. In this time he learned a great deal about people, and the importance of an office that overlooks a low roof. Happiness, he's been know to say, is often a handy escape route.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
sWitch is an incredibly original and beautifully-written novel that definitely redefines the concept of horror fiction. It takes an intensely average family and reveals what really goes on behind those twitching net curtains and turns the entire concept of "normality" and family life entirely on its head. The characters are wonderfully-realised and there is a masterful balance of dark humour and deep insight. The pacing is superb and every paragraph is finely crafted to set the mood and tempo.
This is a superb offering from a novelist destined to become a bestseller. I love this book!
This is a superb offering from a novelist destined to become a bestseller. I love this book!
Format:Paperback
sWitch follows the Ducharme family through the best and worst day of their life. The book opens with basic intel on each member of the family, and how delightfully distant they are, a unit functioning like a robot who's short circuiting so all arms and legs flail in disharmony, getting nowhere fast.
Barbara Ducharme is a prissy missy, cordial, lady, worried about appearances, and she inherits a house from her grandmother setting into motion the bulk of the plot. Barbara also has a number of secrets, her suddenly soaring sex drive, her emails and gifts of soap to a man on death row, and her addiction to wifi. She has found Satanism and finds it liberating. Oh I know so many of you are going to rear up like scared horses at that statement, but seriously it's NOT at all what you're thinking. This book is witty, it's downright funny at times, and it blows the Adam's family into the history folder and replaces them with the Ducharme's as the new `cordial' and `courteous' family who have found something beyond themselves.
This *something* is not what you think, Barbara may call it Satanism, but what it is, is unity in adversity. It's finding that the world is as magical as you'd like it to be, and that nothing is more powerful than your free will, and this is amplified to the nth degree when you and your kin share the same *will*, the will to survive, to protect each other, love each other, and stand united no matter what the threat.
The Almighty Alrighty skinheads march into their new home and threaten them, holding them trial and sentencing them to death in the coldest water this side of the Arctic circle, before which the soap carver escapes prison and comes calling with his masked sweetheart and Lucky, (the unluckiest SOB to ever walk this planet.)
It's a great read, it's a swift read with much action, the plot doesn't falter and it all gets more bizarre (yet strangely lucid and logical) by the minute. I have to say that Scott manages to get inside your head with this one, the rationale behind the actions of the victims (the Ducharme's) is so justified and logical that you'll side with them no matter what's going on (the alternatives are too awful to consider). The writing itself is excellent, it's lyrical and delightful, he really has a flair for the written word and placing it succinctly so that it says a lot in as few words as possible, making it almost poetic at times and giving this reader a big silly grin.
I laughed out loud, A LOT!
This is an utterly delightful and lighthearted read. It will give you a lot of smiles despite it being quite packed with action and tension. It's horror on LSD. It's the prettiest horror you'll ever read, and Norton definitely makes you wish there was a sequel. *nods*
Definitely five out five from me.
Poppet
Barbara Ducharme is a prissy missy, cordial, lady, worried about appearances, and she inherits a house from her grandmother setting into motion the bulk of the plot. Barbara also has a number of secrets, her suddenly soaring sex drive, her emails and gifts of soap to a man on death row, and her addiction to wifi. She has found Satanism and finds it liberating. Oh I know so many of you are going to rear up like scared horses at that statement, but seriously it's NOT at all what you're thinking. This book is witty, it's downright funny at times, and it blows the Adam's family into the history folder and replaces them with the Ducharme's as the new `cordial' and `courteous' family who have found something beyond themselves.
This *something* is not what you think, Barbara may call it Satanism, but what it is, is unity in adversity. It's finding that the world is as magical as you'd like it to be, and that nothing is more powerful than your free will, and this is amplified to the nth degree when you and your kin share the same *will*, the will to survive, to protect each other, love each other, and stand united no matter what the threat.
The Almighty Alrighty skinheads march into their new home and threaten them, holding them trial and sentencing them to death in the coldest water this side of the Arctic circle, before which the soap carver escapes prison and comes calling with his masked sweetheart and Lucky, (the unluckiest SOB to ever walk this planet.)
It's a great read, it's a swift read with much action, the plot doesn't falter and it all gets more bizarre (yet strangely lucid and logical) by the minute. I have to say that Scott manages to get inside your head with this one, the rationale behind the actions of the victims (the Ducharme's) is so justified and logical that you'll side with them no matter what's going on (the alternatives are too awful to consider). The writing itself is excellent, it's lyrical and delightful, he really has a flair for the written word and placing it succinctly so that it says a lot in as few words as possible, making it almost poetic at times and giving this reader a big silly grin.
I laughed out loud, A LOT!
This is an utterly delightful and lighthearted read. It will give you a lot of smiles despite it being quite packed with action and tension. It's horror on LSD. It's the prettiest horror you'll ever read, and Norton definitely makes you wish there was a sequel. *nods*
Definitely five out five from me.
Poppet
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Entertaining!
3 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I didn't know what to expect when I purchased this book, but what I got was an entertaining story from beginning to end. It had it all for me....horror, twists, family values, mixed in with some laughs and a few good ole fashion uncomfortable moments! I have never reviewed a book online before, but I felt that I needed to give this author\book some props.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Edgy and unpredictable thriller
4 Jan 2011
Format:Paperback
I read a large amount of horror fiction and it was a breath of fresh (or perhaps fetid may be more appropriate) air to read this edgy and unpredictable thriller.
The story revolves around a seemingly mundane American family who actually harbour some pretty dark secrets, especially the matriarch of the family a bored suburban housewife who is drifting towards Satanism and making some rather ill-advised liaisons via the internet.
The story is told at a relentless pace as the family face brutal attack from a disparate group of psychotic thrill killers whilst dark forces gather. As the title suggests this thrilling page turner has more than a few twists in its tail
If you enjoy a good horror novel yet are a little weary of the usual rather tired formula I would heartily recommend reading this and I look forward to what this promising author produces next.
The story revolves around a seemingly mundane American family who actually harbour some pretty dark secrets, especially the matriarch of the family a bored suburban housewife who is drifting towards Satanism and making some rather ill-advised liaisons via the internet.
The story is told at a relentless pace as the family face brutal attack from a disparate group of psychotic thrill killers whilst dark forces gather. As the title suggests this thrilling page turner has more than a few twists in its tail
If you enjoy a good horror novel yet are a little weary of the usual rather tired formula I would heartily recommend reading this and I look forward to what this promising author produces next.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great fun!
14 Oct 2010
Format:Paperback
sWitch is an incredibly original and beautifully-written novel that definitely redefines the concept of horror fiction. It takes an intensely average family and reveals what really goes on behind those twitching net curtains and turns the entire concept of "normality" and family life on its head. The characters are wonderfully-realised and there is a masterful balance of dark humour and deep insight. The pacing is superb and every paragraph is finely crafted to set the mood and tempo.
This is a superb offering from a novelist destined to become a bestseller. I love this book!
This is a superb offering from a novelist destined to become a bestseller. I love this book!
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