The Omen by David Seltzer

The Omen by David Seltzer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Time taken to read - 1 day

Pages - 220

Source - Amazon

Publisher - Mass Market Paperback

Blurb from Goodreads

Jeremy Thorn, United States Ambassador to England, and his wife Katherine become the parents of a beautiful boy whose destiny is to fulfill the most horrible prophecy ever made. Reprint. (A 20th Century Fox film, written by Dan McDermott, directed by John Moore, releasing June 2006, starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, & David Thewlis) (Horror)


My Review

So I have seen the movie a million times when I was younger, I didn't know it was a book and I wanted to read something spooky on Halloween so this was the winner. If you have seen the movie this is pretty close to it or as much as I read in this I remember from the movie so I think it was quite similar.

Jeremy Thorn and his wife have their much longed for baby, born on the 6/6/6 - significance oh yes. Now this is a really dark book, Satanic, good vs evil, the murder of an innocent baby which is described and then switched with another. Wifey doesn't know and Jeremy is sold a story so you don't really know there is any issue. When the wean hits four things really kick off. Things start to go strange round Damien, and slowly his mum notices things, his nanny is super creepy/bossy, Damien's reaction to some places (Church) and reactions to him (animals, not the big scary demon dog though).

I woulda had holy water next to me reading this but we were on holiday so we went off and I got a bracelet with a wee cross, religious books absolutely creep me out! Lots of dark themes, the devil, Satanism, child harm, death, suicide, animal harm/death so go into it prepared, 3.5/5 for me.

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