Maggie's Grave

Oh my God, this was such a wild ride. Once the action starts it doesn't let up and I was hooked. What a fun, gory gem of a book.

Horror is a genre that I haven’t really touched until now. I’m more of a sci-fi and fantasy reader, but I set myself the goal to read outside of my comfort zone for this year, and I’m very glad I did.

Maggie’s Grave is a campy slasher 80’s horror story, and an incredibly fun read at that. It’s gory, has lots of action, and it offers plenty of over the top moments -ritual sacrifice with james blunt soundtrack comes to mind- that are kind of silly but in a really fun way.

Totally recommend it if slasher horror sounds like something you might enjoy.

I have no idea what to rate this or say about it. (0_0)

This book was a 4 stars until the ± 65% mark where there's an orgy scene that was so out of the left field considering the nature of the story until that point and so ridiculously done (seriously, felt like the type of scene you write during a midnight overly caffeinated writing sesh knowing full well you're going to edit it out in the first rounds of edits) that I struggled to take any of it seriously afterward. That being said, this book reads like a wet puppet b movie and in that sense it does have a fair bit of charm and there's a few really good scenes.

Holy mother of god..... (Pun intended). This was possibly the best horror novel I've read. It had me legitimately filled with dread, fear, disgust, and adrenaline as Maggie Wall tore through each victim with gusto.

The stupendous dread build-up, explosive terror, repulsive gore was fantastic page after page (odd thing to say, I know). A warning to anyone who wishes to read this, there are some scenes that are highly graphic in their description. Will recommend that you potentially not eat anything before tackling this story, if you are truly squeamish.

I only wish I could rate this higher, it was so damn good.