My review:
Sunday and storming just binged this one. I had scheduled to read it after Middlegrade March but couldn't wait, today was the perfect stormy weather for a brutal thriller.
5 plus
Uau, this was awesome. Super dark and with no filters, this author is knowledgeable of many things on many levels, and it comes across the writing. It doesn't read as a debut at all. Congratulations on the hard work put into this one. Apart from the switch of fonts and sometimes having to slow down to revisit the complexity of the chapter (with some abstract ideas), I have no negative points to this book, and it made me trust that I will read what the author writes next.
The book starts with a gruesome crime, the body being discovered, and then a lot of flashbacks. These flashbacks may seem innocent and digressions to balance the fact that the cops just discovered a human body sawn in half... They may seem to take us away from the present and horrible crime, but it's not. There is no innocent sentence or attempt to fill pages with bottle episodes. Everything counts.
The author adds relevant information constantly (that will make sense in the third part of the story towards the end), building the characters' arc and making the next chapters unpredictable (at least for me.) It keeps our interest without the use of a thousand plot twists which I appreciate.
The author's love for true crime gets through. It goes from The Swamp Thing to A Nightmare on Elm Street, Black Dhalia Murders, spiced with Charles Manson's opioids... and more. True crime, pop culture, urban legends, mental disorders, and even some paranormal native people's curses and beliefs. Set in Alaska, with cold snow, giving us Stephen King's vibes but with a lot of detail, forensic, visual, and violence. This is for true crime lovers who don't care about triggers. It took me back to the first time I watched Twin Peaks as a child. For readers who accept the genre for its darkness, pushing its limits with the rawness of Saw, Final Destination, Chainsaw Texas Massacre, or the show True Crime.
I am looking forward to reading the next project.
It's available here.
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