shidoburrito's Reviews (1.54k)

I read this book while on my horror book binge as it was rated one of the top horror books of the 21st century here on GR. While it wasn't the scariest book I've read it definitely has been one of the best. Better than Heart Shaped Box. The characters were just all top notch, the story is quite an adventure, and its just so HEARTFELT! Seriously! I know he hates being compared to his Dad but this book had more of a King-ish feel to it since it was very much outside the realm of reality and possibility, but that's what made it feel like such an original story in which his characters flourished!

This book is definitely one of suspense (not horror like I was expecting), but the tactics used to make it suspenseful reminded me of when I was little and read Goosebumps. Each chapter ends with it's own little cliffhanger to entice you to keep reading, and it got a little tiresome and redundant. That said, it is a quick and easy read if. Also, it felt like it wanted to be a detective mystery, especially towards the end and the whole wrap-up, but at times the details and the events seemed a little slapped on, or added at the last minute, to confuse the reader. Which is fine, that happens with detective fiction, but it seemed out of place in this novel.

Other than that, it was decent!

So this book, which is the entire collection of short stories set in Blackstone in one book, made me think of a 90's horror/comedy show (like Tales from the Crypt without the Cryptkeeper). You know, low budget for the effects, each story has a moral at the end or a separate theme but they're all tied together in some way. Yeah, something like that. It was all very 90s. But not bad. It was an enjoyable series of short stories that features a cursed item in each one, then it all comes together in the end when you find out who the mysterious shadowed figure is delivering these items to the townsfolk. Easy read, nothing too deep, and your classic 90s horror. Enjoy!

Looking for a gruesome book? A good ol' picked-off-one-by-one horror? Then let me introduce you to this book, where the deaths and descriptions are beyond gross, the adults are quick to die and the children are left to fend for themselves against a terrifying and unseen enemy.

Do not read if children hurting themselves or each other is a trigger (think Lord of the Flies, but even worse). Also, I had to skip a scene of intense animal abuse (don't hurt cats, man) otherwise my rating would be MUCH lower and I would have stopped reading the book. Luckily it was just one part and I could easily skip over it and get back to the horrible deaths of humans. Let's face it, we watch shows and read books with humans doing the worst things to each other, but by God if you so much as harm an animal you will be hated forevermore.

As I was reading this I SWORE I had read it before... it all seemed so familiar. Silly me HAD read it before, two years ago when I had to do book club at work. I speed read through it. Meh. 'Tis a silly book.

Remember that movie Chronicle where the teens were able to give themselves super powers and then one of them started using it for bad? Okay, take that and then sprinkle in an essence of Death Note's cat/mouse game between two smart people but both do awful things to obtain their goal and there's no clear "good guy" and "bad guy". Tadaaaa! You get this book, which was really a lot of fun to read.

I don't know why this took me so long to read. It wasn't bad, but the pacing is definitely stop and go. A horror story of old Norse gods at heart, it's almost as much a survival-in-the-wilderness book. If you watched the Netflix film they made of this, know that they end very differently and pretty much veer from the book after they stay in that old house the first night.

Well, that took me, like, 10 minutes to read. So a very quick story. Pretty easy to understand. There were dragons, so I'm appeased!

You know what? I think that's my fave Deadpool comic so far!

Lots of fourth wall breaking here, and Spidey even gives it a try! Camping, road trips, vacation, bugs. This was a fun SpideyPool comic.