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The Mall [Kindle Edition]

S.L. Grey
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Dan is an angsty emo-kid who works in a deadly dull shopping mall. He hates his job. Rhoda is a junkie whose babysitting charge ran off while she was scoring cocaine. She hates her life.
Rhoda bullies Dan into helping her search, but as they explore the neon-lit corridors behind the mall, disturbing text messages lure them into the bowels of the building, where old mannequins are stored in grave-like piles and raw sewage drips off the ceiling. The only escape is down.
Plummeting into the earth in a disused service lift playing head-splitting Musak, Dan and Rhoda enter a sinister underworld that mirrors their worst fears. They finally escape, but something feels different. Why are the shoppers all pumped full of silicone? Why are the shop assistants chained to their counters? And why is a caf� called McColon�s selling lumps of bleeding meat?
Just when they think they�ve made it back to the mall, they realize the nightmare has only just begun...

About the Author

S.L. Grey is a mysterious, genderless persona who savours the adrenaline rush of reading and writing cutting-edge horror. In the past, one of S.L. Grey's avatars has re-shelved books in a public library, spent thirteen years in a bookselling chain, and gained an MA in Vampire Fiction. Under a different guise, S.L. Grey has animated horror films, won an award for South African fiction and written a love poem to a zombie...

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 594 KB
  • Publisher: Corvus (25 Dec 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004EYSNDY
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #56,593 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Consumerism's witty, scary, and extremely well-written upgrade, 3 Jan 2011
This review is from: The Mall (Kindle Edition)
I'll cut to the chase: The Mall is absolutely brilliant.

I had thought that the last word on consumerism came with Fight Club and No Logo, and anything that followed would be a retread of familiar ground, but SL Grey has somehow managed to make this well-trodden theme and everything that goes with it seem fresh again.

I would never have expected this to happen within the narrative of a psychological horror/thriller - I was expecting a simple, lean mash-up of Saw, Cube and Fight Club going by the blurb - so what I read was a nice surprise. Character-wise, I was really turned round on the lead character of Rhoda (an object lesson in how to make an initially unsympathetic person compelling enough to want to be around), and the places that she and other lead Dan are taken emotionally are surprising yet always feel authentic.

What's best about the book is that its premise screams "commercial" but there's more to it than what's on the surface. Part two's bravely luxurious pace allows the character stuff the space to breathe, and while a return to The Mall always seems inevitable (and it's brilliant how it actually seems possible that such a return is desirable), the discoveries that Rhoda and Dan make about each other, and how far both characters have come since the opening of the novel, make their realisation of what they must do have an emotional truth that's pretty rare in today's commercial fiction.

Therefore, what could easily have descended into gratuitous schlock-horror is, in fact, a great character piece. There are still scares galore for horror fans, though, of course. And the narrative is littered with witty, cool stuff. Text messaging from hell. A restaurant called McColons. Shoppers like you've never seen before. There's a bucketload of imagination on display here and I loved reading it.

So my advice is to buy The Mall - right now if you're lucky enough to own a Kindle, but definitely when the book is released in hardback later this year. As others have already said, you'll never look at a shop mannequin in the same way again. More importantly, though, after reading this book you'll be counting the days until SL Grey releases his/her next novel.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant!!, 25 Aug 2011
This review is from: The Mall (Kindle Edition)
I was left thinking about this story for days afterwards! Even a few weeks later, my thoughts keep returning to it...
Set in a mall in the modern day city of Jo'burg, two strangers somehow find themselves in an alternate version of their mall being chased by a frightening and unknown entity (or entities?) that's out for their...blood? Souls? Bodies?....
Written from a present progressive perspective means that you are right there with them as they run, and experience it all with them. My heart thumped in fear along with them, I was left frantically thinking how they were going to get through the next part when I had to put the book down, and as I said, after finishing I've been left thinking about this books weeks after. As another reviewer said, this book could definately be made into a movie. The characters and the world were so fantastically 'real' and believable. A superb and refreshing story!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Shopping will never be the same, 2 Jan 2011
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A must read . Original and scary . I had to read this book in one sitting and it is awesome . Stand back Stephen King , S L Grey has arrived.
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