BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural

Unsolved Supernatural is a conflicted read for me. Once I could get past all the incessant chatter, it was easier to read. For such a short book...it was hard to want to even finish. Let me explain why...

First, let me say, I have no idea who these guys are or what show they host/create. I wanted this one simply for the ghost stories. This is almost like a tour guide for all things haunted and I loved this. The way it's broken down into sections (haunted houses, asylums, hotels, etc.) is perfect. The pictures and illustratios are great too. These are the only things I loved about this book.

With each summarized ghost story, you get commentary from Ryan and Shane interrupting said story. You get a sentence or two to start the story off, and then their two cents (which was sometimes funny), and then back to the story. This goes on for the entirety of the book and feels like reading a podcast.

For me, this was extremely disruptive and stinted the flow. It would have been better to have their chatter moved to the end of each story instead of the format this was written in. I am positive others will love this style of writing, especially fans of Ryan and Shane. It just does not work for me and actually led me to almost DNF this one.

I managed to push through, just completely skipping over their dialogue, and really enjoyed all the different haunted places they discuss. Some I was familiar with, and some were new to me and they ALL definitely brought the icy chills and creep factors.

While this wasn't a hit for me, I would recommend for fans of these guys or readers who enjoy books that read podcast style. The stories themselves would make this one Spooktober worthy too.

I appreciate Running Press and Novel Suspects for the review copy. All opinions are my own.

I have been watching BFU since it started. I loved Ryan's and Shane's antics and as soon as they left to do there own YouTube channel I continued to follow them there.

So when I saw that they had book coming out I immediately pr-ordered a copy. Then it finally came in the mail and I was kind of disappointed. I even got the audio book to see if it was any better, which was a little bit.

The Good
This book has a combination of places that Ryan and Shane had episodes on and including some that they have didn't have episodes. So it was fun to have there comments on new place.
If you get the audiobook they have a different narrator for the telling the story of the location. And a few times the narrator seem to indirectly acknowledge Shane and Ryan comments and response with a very dry humor.
There are also so very funny parts where they talk about how popular thing became or how something became a meme. The best is when they get to the Moth Man and jokes about how everyone is horny for him.

Bad
Though the idea of going back and forth between Shane, Ryan, and the narrator is funny it doesn't really happen as much as it could. Then each of the sections are somewhere between a 1 to 2 pages long. So basically you are getting a condensed of an episode which where already short to begin with.
I really wished they had talked about some behind the scenes, like what it takes to create an episode. Something like the ‘Unsolved Almost 70th Episode Retrospective'.

Theory One (and only theory)
I would not be at all surprised if this was just Buzzfeed's attempt to squeezes every last dime the can make out of Shane and Ryan. And I'm sure that The Ghoul Boys get some cut of the profit.

Overall if you like the show I think you'll enjoy it okay.