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Title: Timeless Innocents

Author: Janis Susan May

Narrator: Bailey Carr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-12

Publisher: Carina Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

When Brianna Forte is made executor of the Clerkwells' estate, she thinks it'll be a simple task to catalogue and liquidate their assets. After all, they lived very modestly, their only apparent interest in life being a large collection of eerily lifelike little figurines called Timeless Innocents.

Exquisitely crafted yet somehow ominously creepy, the figurines are all different and made of some hard, fleshlike material. When a parade of sinister characters turn up demanding she sell them the figures, Brianna begins to investigate their origin - and what she learns will change her life forever....

Members Reviews:

As if knick-knacks weren't creepy enough...

As if knick-knacks weren't creepy enough... Now there's a book about them too. My review copy of Timeless Innocents was graciously provided by the good folks at Carina Press.

Timeless Innocents. Even the name is vaguely creepy, in that way that all collectibles seem to be. There's always been something just a little off-putting about seeing shelves upon shelves of tiny little people staring back at me. Now I know why. They really are horrid little things - and not just because it takes forever to dust them.

Janis Susan May's novella is a fanciful romp into the dark world of collectibles - and the obsession that underlies the act of collecting. Her version - Timeless Innocents - starts out banal enough. A lawyer is brought in to catalog the collection of a couple that recently died. Things don't stay banal for long though, as our fearless heroine spends time in the house with the tiny statues (which, personally, I picture as Precious Moments blended with Hummel figurines - if they were designed by Neil Gaiman).

There are a few deviations here and there, but the story offers up pretty standard fare. The spunky young lawyer living in her dad's shadow. The "parade of sinister characters" (quote from the book blurb) all with eerily obsessive interest in the figurines. Mysterious deaths. Noises when your back is turned. An ending that you shouldn't see coming but somehow do anyway.

It's not a bad little read at all. But it's not exactly edge-of-your-seat thriller-ness either. There's something comfortable about the story - you can see what is coming a mile away, but yet it still gives you a goosebump or two every now and again. While it didn't scare me to the point that I had to put it down, I also wouldn't have read it while home alone. It's a pleasant way to spend 99 cents (on kindle) and however long it takes you to read about 25,000/so words - if your idea of pleasant leans toward the designed-by-Neil-Gaiman end of the spectrum.

A quick read...but not scary!

This was an enjoyable book that passed away a few hours. But, that was all it was. I didn't jump, I wasn't scared--I did not show any sign I was reading a horror book. This wasn't of any fault to Janis Susan May, however, it was merely the fact that this novella was very similar to the usual movie thriller. Yes, I didn't find it to be of the horror genre because usually a lot more happens and many people die but this was a thriller because everything was more or less resolved by the end and it just kept you on your toes, waiting for something to happen throughout.

The first 'horrifying' thing happened at 48% of the book. That's how slow it was.