ayla_abbott
Written on Mar 6, 2016
In the wake of their Aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline's return to the childhood home they once shared. While Scott desperately wants to go back to their shabby south of Sunset lives, he cannot pry his sister away from this old house that is a conduit for the supernatural.
Decorated by bits salvaged from old hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a dark family secret that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino and the silent film stars. A collection of hypnotic abstract images inked on paper allows the Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time - to transport themselves into the past and future in visions that are both puzzling and terrifying.
As Madeline falls more completely under Caveat's spell, Scott must fight to protect her. But will he unravel the mystery of the Madden family's past and finally free them. . . or be pulled deeper into their deadly web?
- ISBN10 0062262459
- ISBN13 9780062262455
- Publish Date 19 January 2016
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English
Reviews
viking2917
Written on Feb 27, 2016
Any new book by Tim Powers is a treat. He's dredged up a bunch of old Hollywood history and some interesting occult "spiders", drawings that enable time transport.
But, it's not Power's best book. I enjoyed it but wasn't gripped by it. Power's signature move is alternate histories that dovetail with real history, and Medusa's Web only has a touch of that. Powers fans will enjoy it. But if you've not read Powers before, try Last Call or Declare first.