![]() ![]() Título original: I Am Not a Serial Killer. This will be one of those novels that you will find impossible to put down, and when you’ve finished, you will want to recommend it to everyone you know. I Am Not a Serial Killer es una película dirigida por Billy OBrien con Max Records, Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Karl Geary. It is incredible, and the sequels that will come out over the next year are even better. ![]() It surpasses Dexter on every level.ĭon’t be afraid to pick up this novel. Lastly, Dan’s book shifts dramatically from normal Horror to a near-Supernatural Horror part way through the novel (and it succeeds where Lindsay’s 3rd Dexter novel turned into complete crap). Second, Dan handles the young sociopath infinitely better than Lindsay handles his young Dexter segments. First of all, we know Dan, and he had this idea long before Dexter was even popular. Now, some people may mistakenly draw parallels to the Jeff Lindsay’s character, Dexter. How often can one book evoke that range of emotions, and make you pleased about all of them? I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER does just that, and more. Leer críticas de I Am Not a Serial Killer, dirigida por Billy OBrien. When we read this novel, we somehow managed to feel pleasantly disturbed, amused, horrified, terrified, and awed. We think it was this accessible blend that really made this book excellent, in our not-so-humble opinions. There are moments where the novel seems YA, and others where is straight-up Horror/Supernatural Horror. When we read I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER, we somehow managed to feel pleasantly disturbed, amused, horrified, terrified, and awed.ĭan’s writing is clever, and extremely well done. Guess what? That’s garbage, and Dan proves it in this amazing novel–the first in a trilogy–that the old-school flavor of horror built on suspense and character development is the way horror should be written and enjoyed. ![]() One of the things we especially liked about I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER (and therefore you are required to like it too), was that it doesn’t seem to follow the typical public’s view of “horror.” It seems like people are hell-bent on assuming that horror is synonymous with hack-and-slash and blood-and-gore. His personal investigation of the murders puts him in a unique position to expose the killer, and also puts him in danger of losing himself to his inner sociopath. John, a boy in High School who also works at his family mortuary, begins to notice a strange pattern in the murders that are taking place in his small town. John is obsessed with serial killers (he even writes reports on them in school)–how could he not be considering his tendencies, and the fact that he is named John Wayne (though his mother swears she didn’t name him after the serial killer John Wayne Gacy). He has all the tendencies of a sociopath, and he is very aware of how dangerous they are. You see, he worries that he might become a serial killer. His troubles go much deeper than most, and are much more serious. John Wayne Cleaver is the protagonist of the book, and as you find out very early on, he isn’t your average teenager. Our opinions are obviously superior to the rest, so you should believe us without question. Dan Wells has crafted something extraordinary with his first novel, I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER ( Amazon). ![]()
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