Overall Take:
This book is just such a fun horror thriller and I highly recommend it.
Star Rating:
5 Stars
Genre:
Horror (light), Thriller
Synopsis:
It’s the summer of 1988 and bodies are turning up in a small Maryland town. The police believe a serial killer is on the loose. Soon a rumor begins to spread that the killer is not entirely human.
Recent college student Richard Chizmar returns to town just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch is formed. Richard soon finds himself thrusts into the real-life horror story. Richard writes a personal account of the serial killers reign of terror.
Thoughts:
This book was so much fun. I read Becoming the Boogeyman earlier this year when it came out and had a lot of fun with it.
The writing was very captivating, and I was excited to go back and read this one. It did not disappoint, and I loved it so much! While I wish I would have read these in order, I still enjoyed and really had a lot of fun with this book. The writing style is just so much fun, and the mixed media format is great.
I did listen to this one on audio so some of the elements were missing, such as the photographs and that made me a little sad. I love how the author took this story and immersed himself into it, it made it that much more entertaining. This is something that stood out to me when I read Becoming the Boogeyman and I went back and flipped through my copy of this one to get caught up on so I didn’t entirely miss out on it.
The author’s note on this book really gave me a glimpse into how this writer’s journey went and it was enlightening. I’m still not entirely sure what parts of this book are true crime and which parts are made up, and I’m okay with that, the important part to me is that I enjoyed it, and I did. I think for me I equated it to reading historical fiction, it was based loosely on true facts, but it wasn’t a true retelling, so my expectations are different. It was such a well written novel.
This one is a lot of fun. While the audio version is great, and the narrator is top notch, I recommend reading the physical book or at least following along so you get the full experience of this one.
Publication Date:
August 17, 2021
Author:
Richard Chizmar
Page Length:
322 pages
Publisher:
Gallery Books
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