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    Mannheim Rex
    Mannheim Rex
    Mannheim Rex
    Audiobook14 hours

    Mannheim Rex

    Written by Robert Pobi

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    After the sudden death of his wife, famous horror writer Gavin Corlie retreats from New York City to a secluded house on Lake Caldasac. But his new life in the country is far from idyllic; when a thirteen-year-old wheelchair-bound boy named Finn Horn nearly drowns in the lake, Gavin discovers a startling secret: people in this peaceful lakeside community keep vanishing. Is the corrupt, Benzedrine-fueled town sheriff to blame? Or is Finn’s account of a lake-dwelling monster more than a near-death hallucination? Racing against time and Mother Nature, Gavin and Finn embark on a quest to catch a nightmare that seems to have evolved with a single frightful purpose: to feed on human prey.

    An homage to the blockbuster Jaws and the classic American novel Moby-Dick, Mannheim Rex is a deep dark thriller that switches seamlessly between heart-warming friendship and heart-stopping action.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 20, 2012
    ISBN9781455842179
    Mannheim Rex
    Author

    Robert Pobi

    Robert Pobi spent the past 15 years sleuthing antiques. To fuel his client’s desire for the unusual and exquisite, he travelled the world to auction houses and dealers, handpicking merchandise. This is his first novel.

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    • 3/5
      You want to know the best thing about lake monsters?Robert Pobi’s second novel, Mannheim Rex, falls firmly within the territory of a literary genre I coined. I call it “trashy underwater fiction,” (TUF) and have ever since I was the editor of a magazine for scuba divers. There are many subgenres of TUF: killer marine life, mermaids, talking dolphins, undersea city, etc. Mannheim Rex is of the “lake monster” subgenre. And I ask you, how can you go wrong? There’s a lake, and you have a monster. It almost writes itself.Well, let’s give credit where credit is due. I think Mr. Pobi had a hand in this. After the requisite mysterious fishing death, the novel opens in the New York apartment of a hugely successful horror novelist. If you stretch your imagination, you can probably think of a real-world counterpart. Not yet forty, Gavin Corlie has realized the kind of success most men only dream about—but that can’t bring his wife back. Unable to move past his grief, he knows something has to change. Almost on a whim, he buys a house upstate on Lake Caldasac.There, Corlie begins to find some measure of peace, and begins to make friends—first with Finn, a handicapped thirteen-year-old boy, and then with the local doctor treating him. But Finn also introduces Gavin to the mysterious goings on at the lake. The two of them join together on a quest to uncover the truth and to hunt a lake monster.Now, this is all pretty familiar territory to aficionados of TUF, but Pobi’s having fun with the genre tropes. He’ll win no literary awards, but I’ve seen writing that’s far worse. The plot was fairly predictable—especially the identity of the mystery monster—but some scenes (like a certain basement sequence) elevated the material briefly. The characters were a mixed bag. Corlie was enjoyable enough, but Finn drove me nuts! I wanted to punch that little handicapped kid! He was so annoying. Also, in addition to the threat in the lake, the novel features a second antagonist. This character was COMPLETELY over-the-top. It was actually a little hard to believe what I was reading at times. The novel’s pace was okay, a somewhat surprising fact given the book’s inflated 540-page length.Mannheim Rex isn’t literature, but if you’re reading this review, I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for. You want to know the best thing about lake monsters? They can turn out to be almost anything. I’d not encountered this culprit before, and despite some predictability, Mannheim Rex is a welcome addition to my trashy underwater fiction shelves.