Bloodroot

A Novel

By: Robert F. Jones

Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine

From the acclaimed author of Blood Sport and Blood Tide, comes another impressing, original work of twisted fiction. In the beginning was the Oak, its hungry roots reaching deep into the earth, its gnarled limbs searching the distant heavens. Two hundred years ago, Obediah Magrute worshipped the Oak and died violently beneath it, feeding it with his blood and bone, shouting his chilling curse to the skies. Now, Laura and Mark Avery have come to the bustling little Vermont village. They have given up their frenetic city life to settle in the old Eldridge Place and to start their family.

Quiet and quaint, the village is nestled among the rolling green hills of Hubley's Gore. For centuries, the inhabitants of the little farming village had tilled the soil, eking out a living from the harsh land, bound together by time, by ties of kinship, by their battle against the savage elements...and by the dark secret in their midst. Silent, supreme, it held sway over them. Buried deep in the soil, in the heart of the dense forest, in the soul of the living wood, it commanded the very elements. It demanded obedience and unholy worship and...sacrifice. Laura and Mark are not superstitious, though. They find the local legends charming. But as the seasons turn and the full moon rises, people die in Hubley's Gore in thrall to an ancient, terrible power.

©2015 Louise Jones (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Just a little to much Of the feminist agenda

It’s a shame on a good story is someone lesson by the use of politics and ideology slipped in the wear every day speech everywhere in the world

good story

was a good book all the way through until i got to the end...was pretty disappointed

Great Read

A edge of your seat thriller that leaves you wanting more. Could not put this book down. Thanks for a wonderful journey.

Not a lot of growth for women over the two decades since Rosemary’s baby.

If you’re looking for a remake of Rosemary‘s baby, set decades after Ira Levin’s Book from 1967, which still depicts women as barely capable, placid then this is the one for you. Oh, instead of New York it is set in Vermont. That’s about all that is different.

The remake I would like to see is Ripley‘s baby.

She would strap her baby to her back and take a flamethrower to the entire town. Yeah. Wait, Alien was 1979…. Hmm. Must be just this author‘s view of women then.

A Bad writer

You know how you start a new book, where the premise sounds good. The narrator sounds good. And all that’s left is the word smithing. The actual craft of putting together sentences?

And as the book progresses, you hear an occasional cliche or bad adjective but you think, “ahh they’re just getting started it can’t be that bad”?

This is that book. And after 20 minutes I gave up.

Last act goes off the rails

Survivalist right wing nonsense shrouded in sub par religious appropriation. Main character goes from zero to crazy town on a poorly tracked out dime.
Upside: Narrator was great!

Yeah, this is Rosemary's Baby

Another reviewer said this was basically Rosemary's Baby and they were absolutely right. And just like Rosemary's Baby the protagonist is dim witted and a useless damsel. It's extremely frustrating because she's boring and annoying from the very start. What makes things even worse is that she witnessed the same things happen to another woman that happened to her but just decides to disregard everything.

I wish audible would include better stories in the "free" category. We're still paying for this stuff in our subscription so it should be better than reading material kept in the bathroom.

2015 Rosemary's Baby

If you've seen or read Rosemary's Baby then you've already read this book, the only thing is its updated a little. If you need something free to listen to then go ahead but don't waste a credit