Overall Take:
Interesting take on a serial killer
Star Rating:
4 Stars
Genre:
Slasher
Synopsis:
Tolly Driver was a good kid with great potential, but then he went as far as he could in the other direction. In his fictional autobiography, we get to learn how Tolly went from good kid to most feared around. This book explores the Texas town he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, all while being inside the slasher mind of his. You’ll find yourself rooting for the worst of the worst in this blood-curdling tragedy.
Thoughts:
This book was interesting and certainly made me question a few things while not feeling the best about it. This book is meant to be autobiographical and it’s about a serial killer. Okay interesting, color me hooked. But I didn’t like the feeling of feeling sorry for him. It was just a weird feeling and not one I was entirely comfortable with. The writing was a little odd at times as well. I do think that this is how this author might write as I realized after that I did DNF a different book by them. It was almost that there was an odd number of details and that they weren’t evenly dispersed throughout the book. Because of this, the pacing was off. At certain points the book flew by, but then it lagged, and I was dreading going on. I do wonder how much of this was impacted by my choice to listen to it on audio, but for me that usually helps even out the pacing. I did like the narrator, they did a great job of sounding like how I envisioned this book to sound like in my head.
Publication Date:
July 16, 2024
Author:
Stephen Graham Jones
Page Length:
384 pages
Publisher:
Saga Press Books
Thank you to:
Thank you to @sagapressbooks and @simon.audio for this ALC. All thoughts are my own.
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